• Increase investments in upgrading the skills and capabilities of their personnel;
• Strengthen their capacity to integrate workers from aboriginal and immigrant communities;
• Develop more proactive recruitment and retention strategies for workers;
• Strengthen collaborative relations between management and labour;
• Find opportunities to share best practice and pool resources for joint access to training programs and specialized expertise; and,
• Put in place the training, governance, and management systems necessary to protect the health and safety of their workers.

Workers and labour groups must:

• Participate with manufacturers in understanding and responding to the challenges and opportunities of the global marketplace;
• Assist in managing change and improving the way that work gets done;
• Implement innovative solutions in the workplace; and,
• Continually upgrade their skills and competencies.

Business and professional associations must:

• Strengthen public awareness about manufacturing on behalf of their constituents;
• Develop systems of mutual recognition and equivalency for academic, professional, and skills accreditation and work experience;
• Facilitate local collaboration among manufacturers, secondary schools, colleges, universities, and training programs; and,
• Facilitate the formation of manufacturing consortia to share best practice and where feasible pool expertise and training resources.

Sector councils must:

• Facilitate the efforts of manufacturers and other business representatives, labour groups, educators and skills training programs, and community leaders to define the future as well as current skills requirements of Canadian industry;