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DON PROCTER - Kyara Wendling of Smoke Architecture speaks at a panel session on Indigenous partnerships in building in timber. From left: Ivan LaRoche, UBC Prairie Arctic Regional Council; Valerie Vanderwyk, Aboriginal Apprenticeship Board of Ontario; and Patrick Chouinard, Element5.
“Mass timber generally is ideally suited for First Nations communities because you can use it for so many kinds of buildings,” he said, pointing out firehalls to housing as examples. Panellist Valerie Vanderwyk, executive director of the Aboriginal Apprenticeship Board of Ontario, said the board is working to secure partners for mobile training in Indigenous communities.
She said the board prefers partnering with “building trades friends, partners and associations” that ensure young people trained will have good jobs waiting.She said Indigenous communities want to work with construction partners “who want to facilitate changes that we all know needs to take place. Ivan LaRoche, of the Carpenters’ Prairie Arctic Region Council in Winnipeg, told the conference audience there is a desire in First Nations communities to pursue Red Seal certified building trades but that training isn’t always accessible.
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