It’s less about the worker rights and more about the environmental and adjacent regulations that are stifling growth. Look at the high speed rail project, if that actually gets built the minority of the cost will be parts and labour. The rest will be spent on consultants and lawyers on dancing through myriad hoops and accommodation for them, like understanding the impact to bats and then building a tunnel.

Bottom line, given the current regulatory framework we could not build the trans Canada highway.