A Technology Roadmap for Welding and Joining in Canada — Projects — Concluding Remarks

The Canadian Welding and Joining Technology Roadmap (TRM) described in the previous sections of the report represent the efforts and contributions of many people over the last two years — those who participated in the first Vision Forum held in Whitby, Ontario in late 2003, the Steering Committee that guided the TRM process and all of those who participated in the Regional Forums held in Cambridge, Montreal, Edmonton and Halifax in the autumn of 2005.

The List of Members of the Steering Committee can be found in Appendix A. The List of Participants in the original 2003 Whitby Forum and in the 2005 Regional Forums can be found in Appendix B.

The contribution of the industry, education and research representatives to this TRM process has been tremendous. But the contribution of the Government of Canada has been critical — not just in providing funding to undertake the TRM, but in participating with the other representatives to ensure that welding and joining becomes a recognized enabling technology capable of providing a strategic advantage to the Canadian manufacturing and construction sectors on the world market. Thank you to Industry Canada and to FedNor, the federal government's economic development program for Northern Ontario.

We have made the recommendations on how the Welding and Joining TRM can best be implemented. Furthermore, we have already begun the journey to identify potential members of the Leadership Team. The next steps will depend on how quickly the Leadership Team can "take up the reins" and begin to move forward to the Vision for 2016.

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