Strategic Plan
2026-2030
Introduction
The Labour Market Information Council is an independent, non-profit organization established in 2017 under the directive of the Forum of Labour Market Ministers. We work collaboratively across governments and with public and private stakeholders to improve the quality, accessibility, and use of labour market information across Canada.
LMIC’s 2026–2030 Strategic Plan builds on the organization’s first years of work and responds to a labour market that is changing quickly. As Canadians, employers, educators, policy-makers, and communities navigate shifting skills needs, demographic change, technological disruption, and uneven access to information, high-quality labour market information has never been more important.
This plan sets out LMIC’s role in strengthening Canada’s labour market information ecosystem: helping connect people and organizations, translating complex data into useful insights, and supporting more coherent, comparable, and accessible labour market information across the country. Through this work, LMIC will continue to provide unique public value as a trusted, collaborative, and forward-looking partner in Canada’s world of work.
Vision
Canadians have the necessary information and insights to succeed in a changing, dynamic world of work.
Mission
To empower Canadians to make informed decisions by enabling access to quality, relevant and comprehensive data and insights across the pan-Canadian LMI ecosystem.
Oragnizational values
Our values guide how we work, make decisions, and collaborate with others. They reflect what matters most to LMIC and the standards we bring to our work every day.
Collaborative
We believe the most effective labour market information emerges through partnership across the ecosystem. We work with governments, researchers, practitioners, and organizations to connect expertise, align perspectives, and build shared solutions that strengthen Canada’s labour market information ecosystem. By bringing together diverse knowledge and capabilities, we help ensure labour market insights are more comprehensive, relevant, and impactful.
Integrity
We hold ourselves to the highest standards of rigour and objectivity in the information we produce. Our work is grounded in evidence, methodological transparency, and a commitment to providing reliable labour market information and analyses that Canadians can trust. We are committed to producing evidence that is credible, responsible, and trusted.
Transparency
We are open about how our work is conducted and how conclusions are reached. By clearly communicating our methods, assumptions, and findings, we enable others to understand, evaluate, and confidently use labour market information in their decisions. Transparency strengthens trust and ensures our work can meaningfully support evidence-based dialogue.
Curiosity
We approach our work with a spirit of inquiry and continuous learning. By asking new questions, exploring emerging data sources, and testing innovative approaches, we seek to deepen understanding of Canada’s evolving labour market and improve the information available to Canadians. We value thoughtful discourse, debate, good questions, and evidence-based learning and investigate labour market challenges with humility and rigour, recognizing that no single dataset or perspective tells the full story.
The pan-canadian LMI ecosystem:
A collaborative endeavour
LMIC’s work is shaped by ongoing engagement across Canada’s labour market information ecosystem. We work with governments, stakeholders, practitioners, researchers, and Canadians to better understand information needs, identify gaps, and support more coherent, accessible, and useful labour market information.
Canadians
LMIC uses public opinion research and other engagement activities to understand how Canadians access, interpret, and use labour market information. This helps ensure that our work reflects real-world information needs and supports people in making informed decisions about work, education, training, and careers.
Stakeholders and practitioners
LMIC works with a broad range of partners across the labour market information ecosystem, including sector councils, associations, not-for-profit organizations, education and training institutions, think tanks, private-sector organizations, and career development practitioners.
These relationships help LMIC understand how labour market information is used in practice, where gaps exist, and how data and insights can be made more useful for those supporting Canadians throughout their careers.
Governments
LMIC works closely with federal, provincial, and territorial governments, including through the Forum of Labour Market Ministers, to support coordination and add value to existing labour market information efforts across the country.
This collaboration helps strengthen the comparability, relevance, and use of labour market information across jurisdictions.
Research quality and peer review
LMIC is committed to producing high-quality, reliable, and methodologically sound research and insights. Our work is reviewed by internal and external experts to ensure that our methods, analysis, and findings are rigorous, balanced, and useful to the broader labour market information ecosystem.
Across these relationships, LMIC plays a connecting role: bringing together perspectives from across the ecosystem, identifying shared challenges, and helping turn labour market information into practical insights. This collaborative approach ensures our work is grounded in real-world needs while supporting a more coherent and accessible pan-Canadian LMI system.
Strategic pillars
LMIC’s 2026–2030 Strategic Plan is organized around three pillars that reflect where the organization can provide the greatest value within Canada’s labour market information ecosystem. Together, these pillars guide how LMIC will convene partners, strengthen connections across the system, and translate complex labour market information into useful insights for decision-makers.
Proactive
LMIC will take an active role in identifying emerging labour market information needs, convening partners, and supporting more consistent approaches to generating, analyzing, and reporting labour market information across Canada.
Through this pillar, LMIC will work to:
- support more reliable and comparable approaches to labour market information across jurisdictions;
- help shape pan-Canadian LMI priorities through engagement with governments, partners, and stakeholders;
- advance innovative methods and practices that improve the quality and usefulness of LMI.
Interconnected
LMIC will strengthen relationships across the labour market information ecosystem, connecting governments, stakeholders, practitioners, researchers, and other partners to support better alignment and more informed dialogue.
Through this pillar, LMIC will work to:
- foster stronger connections across public, private, and not-for-profit partners;
- support dialogue on labour market issues of pan-Canadian significance;
- bring diverse perspectives and national and international practices into Canadian LMI conversations.
Knowledge broker
LMIC will help make labour market information more accessible, understandable, and actionable by translating complex data and research into clear insights that support decision-making.
Through this pillar, LMIC will work to:
- provide trusted, transparent, and accessible labour market information;
- support stronger uptake and application of LMI across sectors;
- help Canadians, governments, practitioners, educators, employers, and other users make better-informed decisions through LMI.
Together, these pillars reflect LMIC’s role as a neutral, pan-Canadian organization: connecting people and institutions, supporting better use of labour market information, and helping strengthen the coherence and accessibility of Canada’s LMI ecosystem.
Measuring success
LMIC will track progress against the priorities and outcomes set out in this strategic plan through a performance measurement framework.
Our approach will consider the reach, relevance, and use of our work, as well as LMIC’s contribution to a more connected and coherent pan-Canadian labour market information ecosystem. As priorities evolve, we will continue to refine how we measure progress and report on our impact.
Ensuring accountability
LMIC will publicly report on progress against this strategic plan in its annual report and audited financial statements. These tools help demonstrate how we are advancing our priorities, using public funds responsibly, and contributing to a stronger pan-Canadian labour market information ecosystem
Governance
LMIC is governed by a Board of Directors, supported by an Executive Committee of the Board. The Board is responsible for determining LMIC’s strategic direction and priorities, in consultation with stakeholders. It is composed of senior government officials representing each province and territory, as well as Employment and Social Development Canada and Statistics Canada.
LMIC is also supported by the National Stakeholder Advisory Panel (NSAP) and the Government Stakeholder Advisory Panel (GSAP) to help inform its priorities. NSAP provides advice and input to LMIC’s Executive Director and senior leadership team to help ensure the organization’s priorities, activities, and products are informed by the perspectives and needs of labour market information users across Canada. GSAP brings together labour market information representatives from federal, provincial, and territorial governments to support information-sharing, collaboration, and alignment on labour market information priorities, methods, and emerging issues across jurisdictions.