Jason Thompson’s company took off during the COVID-19 pandemic due to a surge in demand for supplies Now, Superior Strategies Supply and Service is giving a glimpse of what economic reconciliation can do
The robots are coming – or at least that’s the plan. And Jason Thompson couldn’t be happier about it.
The subcontracting arrangement is a new wrinkle in economic partnerships with Indigenous peoples. Over the past few decades, that’s often meant contracting or joint venture opportunities on major resource projects such as mines or pipelines. Increasingly, it means ownership or equity stakes. If Canada wants to bolster its domestic PPE supply chain, it makes sense to do so with economic reconciliation in mind, says Darryl Spector, the president of Promation Nuclear Ltd., an Oakville, Ont., custom manufacturing firm and friendly competitor of Harbour Technologies.
Through that network, Mr. Spector helped connect Harbour Technologies and Superior Strategies. He’d like to see similar mentoring relationships replicated across the country, saying such a model could help build a domestic PPE supply network; further reconciliation; and tap into demographic groups who are underrepresented in the skilled trades, including women and Indigenous people.
Mr. Glover hopes provincial and federal governments will take advantage of that momentum by encouraging – or requiring – health-sector purchasers to negotiate long-term contracts with Canadian suppliers, noting that the United States has included such provisions in a recent infrastructure bill.
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