ADVOCACY
Working for You The Greater Saskatoon Chamber of Commerce continues to actively advocate on behalf of its membership. Recent items to highlight include the following: As we enter into summer, your Chamber is proactively engaging with speakers, both business experts and government officials, in planning our new season of programming. Given the various significant challenges facing Saskatoon businesses, we are keeping our sleeves rolled up and are actively working to help our members and the Saskatoon economy.
We continue to address challenges around the movement of Saskatchewan goods to market. Challenges remain in completing pipelines and ensuring that the rail companies are aware of the need for Saskatoon and Saskatchewan’s goods to travel freely and quickly. As a regional Chamber, we continue to be concerned about international trade challenges. China continues to penalize Canadian goods and the addition of additional pork monitoring last month on top of canola and other Canadian exports is very concerning. The Chamber will be working in concert with other Chambers and economic development groups to maintain support for The Canadian Government in
its actions to address these issues. When it is appropriate, The Chamber will seek your input and voice directly the position of our membership as it pertains to these issues. Have a great summer! We will keep you informed as we continue to advocate on your behalf ! The Chamber will continue to address the concerns of our members and businesses in Saskatoon and the surrounding area to ensure that Saskatoon has a thriving business climate and is the place to live and do business on the prairies.
July brings an exciting addition to our Chamber family with Margot Orr joining us as Director of Policy and Government Relations. In this role she will be working regularly to address the issues that are of concern to our members. Margot brings with her experience in civic policy, connecting businesses to resources they need and economic development. On our radar is the fall federal election. The Chamber is bringing the needs of business and of Saskatoon to the candidates from all parties. It is important to have our voice heard with every candidate and to ensure that the voice of Saskatoon Business is heard clearly. As you may have noted from our recent e-blast, one of the specific issues we are advocating for with the government is skills training support. Ensuring that our workforce has the skills matched to the needs of business makes locating and hiring the right people much easier. If employees are well matched into organizations, they contribute to the organization more and allow more revenue, growth and further hiring.
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