The Strategic Partnership Initiative (SPI) is a mechanism to improve communications and identify opportunities for collaboration among business, labour and government on the strategic economic challenges facing the province.

The approach to strategic partnership in Newfoundland and Labrador has two elements. A tripartite steering committee, including the Deputy Ministers of the Provincial Development Plan (Chair), Innovation, Trade and Rural Development, Human Resource Labour and Employment, and the Labour Relations Agency, as well as representatives of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Labour and the Newfoundland and Labrador Business Caucus directs the overall work of the SPI.

 

The second element is a Secretariat that provides organizational and analytical support to the partnership and builds capacity to implement the partnership’s actions within government, business and labour organizations.

The Partnership is seen by business and labour organizations as operating in a nonpartisan manner. Besides the main departments involved, other line departments are engaged in the work of the Partnership on a regular basis. 

 

Increasing Newfoundland and Labrador’s overall competitiveness is the SPI’s primary mandate.