The new Focused Apprenticeship Skills Training program will allow students in Grades 11 and 12 to participate in more apprenticeship learning through additional co-operative education credits.

The Provincial Forest Access Roads Funding Program provides funding for the construction and maintenance of over 19,500 kilometres of public forest access roads and other essential infrastructure.

Trudeau addressed a crowd of 500 construction union leaders from all provinces on Monday at the Canada's Building Trade Unions annual conference, where he received a standing ovation. 

The latest Hotel Construction Pipeline Trend Report for Canada from Lodging Econometrics finds that there were 314 projects and 39,628 rooms in the total pipeline.

The highway's construction will create 3,500 jobs, Ford said. The province has not said how much the highway will cost.