The Calgary Construction Association (CCA) is frustrated by an exemption granted by the Government of Alberta to the provinces’ Prompt Payment for Construction Work Act, which requires payment to contractors within 31 days.

The government granted an exemption to Dow Chemicals Canada, under an order in council that was passed in September of this year, for their $11 billion—$8.9 billion ($6.5 billion USD) exempting government incentives and subsidies—Path2Zero Expansion Project in Fort Saskatchewan.

The exemption, said CCA President and Chief Operating Officer Bill Black, threatens the transparency and fairness of payment practices in the construction industry—it is, in a word, he said, “unfair.”

“The industry spent more than 10 years lobbying for prompt pay legislation because the pattern of payment for our industry has gotten progressively worse over the last 10 or 20 years,” he said.

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