Sean Strickland
Executive Director of Canada's Building Trades Unions, representing hundreds of thousands of construction tradespeople and providing expertise on labour availability, training and workforce planning for major projects.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 37min
Building at Record Speed: Does Canada Have the Workforce?
Sean Strickland, Executive Director of Canada’s Building Trades Unions, represents over 600,000 skilled tradespeople. He discusses granular trade demand profiling and the challenge of matching workers to many simultaneous major projects. He covers regional feast-or-famine dynamics, barriers to labour mobility and certification, the role of temporary foreign workers, and recruitment and training timing for long-lead trades.
