Canada has an opportunity to build industrialized construction into a strategic domestic manufacturing sector that improves productivity, supports housing delivery, and creates greater value from its forest resource base. At present, however, Canada’s policy environment remains fragmented: innovation, housing, standards, procurement, and industrial development tools are not yet aligned around a coherent scale-up strategy.
This paper argues that Canada should treat mass timber and modern methods of construction as a coordinated manufacturing ecosystem, and should use sustained policy commitment, industry-government coordination, and aligned supply- and demand-side tools to build globally competitive production capacity.
