March 8, 2024
Assessing the economic and labour market impacts Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector, a key driver of the country’s manufacturing and economic growth, is undergoing a significant shift […]
February 23, 2024
This report is a follow up to our 2019 Diversity report, and the 2020 paper on women’s participation in the automotive sector in the post-COVID era. […]
February 7, 2024
Assessing the Economic and Labour Market Impacts Executive Summary: Canada’s automotive manufacturing sector, a key driver of the country’s manufacturing and economic growth, is undergoing a […]
December 10, 2021
Automotive production has faced challenges in attracting and retaining young workers in skilled trades jobs. This new FOCAL paper reports on a recent series of youth […]
November 25, 2021
This paper is based on ‘key informant’ interviews with human resources or operational managers of seven automotive production sector SMEs in rural/smaller population centres in Ontario […]
October 12, 2021
The shift to producing electric vehicles will mean will lead to changes in the automotive manufacturing workforce, its occupations, and in some of relevant skills in […]
August 14, 2021
This new FOCAL paper provides an overview of some of the key recent impacts of the coronavirus pandemic on the automotive production sector in Canada. In […]
May 27, 2021
This paper takes a close look at the labour force of landed immigrants in the automotive production sector (parts + assembly), and immigrant labour force participation […]
December 22, 2020
In this series of reports, we observe the contributions of Canada’s six automotive technology clusters located in Vancouver, the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA), Kitchener […]