{"id":9747,"date":"2026-10-20T19:28:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/?p=9747"},"modified":"2026-10-20T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T19:29:01","slug":"cta-statement-on-federal-immigration-announcement-alliance-reaffirms-need-for-urgent-trusted-employer-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/cta-statement-on-federal-immigration-announcement-alliance-reaffirms-need-for-urgent-trusted-employer-model\/","title":{"rendered":"CTA Statement on Federal Immigration Announcement: Alliance Reaffirms Need for Urgent Trusted Employer Model"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Immigration remains a vital pillar for securing the country’s supply chains, but access to international labour must be tied exclusively to a strict, operational \u00ab\u00a0trusted employer model\u00a0\u00bb to eliminate human trafficking and misclassification, says the Canadian Trucking Alliance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to a major immigration policy overhaul announced by the federal government last week, CTA underscored trucking remains a foundational component of Canadian trade but is facing economic and demographic headwinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0Immigration continues to be an essential mechanism for the long-haul trucking sector as we navigate significant retirements,\u00a0\u00bb said CTA President and CEO Stephen Laskowski. \u00ab\u00a0The reality of our industry involves considerable time spent away from home, which sits in direct contrast with broader, documented shifts in the national labour market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data shows nearly half of youths are unwilling to pursue occupations requiring regular overnight shifts or extended travel away from home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is not a trucking problem; it is a nationwide structural workforce challenge. To keep Canada\u2019s economy moving, accessing safe, professional drivers and workers globally is an absolute necessity,\u201d says Laskowski.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CTA warns that the existing immigration frameworks have been heavily exploited by bad actors. Unscrupulous carriers frequently leverage widespread immigration scams, utilizing shadow consultants and fraudulent commercial setups to bypass regulations. Rather than addressing actual supply chain shortages, these schemes function as human trafficking networks that exploit vulnerable foreign nationals and systematically undermine compliant private sector operators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, these fraudulent operations rely heavily on labour misclassification schemes such as the \u00ab\u00a0Driver Inc.\u00a0\u00bb model<\/a> to artificially lower operating costs, dodge corporate taxes, and strip drivers of basic labor protections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To directly combat forced labor and modern-day slavery at the ground level, CTA’s provincial members, the Manitoba Trucking Association (MTA) and the Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) have partnered with the Joy Smith Foundation to deploy industry-specific tools and raise public awareness. Therefore, while the industry is taking proactive measures to help, federal policy must evolve to shut down the systemic loopholes that human traffickers exploit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Consequently, CTA is advocating for a mandatory Trusted Employer Program. Under this framework, only thoroughly vetted, safety-compliant, and labour-compliant carriers would be granted permission to utilize international recruitment programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The CTA is currently engaged in an active working group with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) to map out the logistics of this model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab\u00a0We do not need fewer safeguards; we need smarter, more rigid ones,\u00a0\u00bb stated Jonathan Blackham, CTA\u2019s Director of Public Affairs. \u00ab\u00a0The CTA is fully committed to our working group with ESDC, but we need to accelerate this process and bring forth the trusted employer as soon as possible, which will allow our sector to reliably serve the Canadian economy while aggressively protecting the basic human and labour rights of all drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Immigration remains a vital pillar for securing the country’s supply chains, but access to international labour must be tied exclusively to a strict, operational \u00ab\u00a0trusted employer model\u00a0\u00bb to eliminate human…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,17,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-labour-hr-driver-shortage","category-news-releases","category-operations-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9748,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions\/9748"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cantruck.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}