Canada's eastern provinces, Quebec and Ontario, are leading the country's construction industry rebound from the COVID-19-driven downturn, even as the western province of Alberta has lagged, new statistics show.

Ontario, the country’s largest province with a major infrastructure sector, began to see construction activity—as measured by work hours—start to rebound at the end of May and peaked in September, rising 25% above a baseline in mid-March, according to Procore Technologies, a provider of construction management software, which publishes a weekly index.

Overall, construction activity across Canada is now 11% above the baseline.

Quebec saw both a sharp downturn, and a sharp uptick later, in the number of hours worked.

到4月5日一周，该省的施工活动跌幅低97％，然后在5月和6月开始反弹。到9月中旬，魁北克的施工时间比3月中旬的工作时间高出50％。

艾伯塔省继续挣扎，在能源依赖省的建筑活动下，石油和气价格下跌。

The number of construction hours worked began dropping in June and fell to a low of 35% below the baseline in early September, before rebounding to 19% below March levels, according to Procore.

ACEC/加拿大总裁兼首席执行官约翰·甘布尔（John Gamble）说：“这肯定跟踪了我从我们的成员那里听到的消息，并补充说，艾伯塔省的下降“与石油和天然气的低迷有关”。

British Columbia, by contrast, has seen little change in the overall pace of activity, with construction continuing to move ahead on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, a prime target of protests by environmentalists and activists from indigenous tribes in the path of the project.

However, the project’s business rationale has also come under attack as well in a new study by the Parkland Institute, the University of Victoria, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

该项目由加拿大政府于2018年接管，并于2019年重新批准了该项目，其前景幅度昏暗，大幅提高，从56亿加元增加到目前的价格标签为95亿美元。

The study calls the government’s plans to spend $9.5 billion on the pipeline “counterproductive,” adding it is “unlikely to increase the profits of Canadian producers or result in a revenue stream that will both cover construction costs and provide additional funds to reduce emissions in a meaningful timeframe.”