Yukon Building Trades Council aims to make training an election issue, president says – CBC

October 9, 2025

‘If housing is going to be an issue, then we need more qualified tradespeople’

Caption: A Yukon builder measures timber for a log home, in 2020. (Philippe Morin/CBC)

As Yukon prepares for a territorial election, the president of the Yukon Building Trades Council says he’s been talking with the political parties about policies to improve skilled trades training.

Jeff Sloychuk says the Yukon needs to recruit more high school shop teachers, better equip high schools, support more community-based training programs – in partnership with industry, unions and First Nations – and make training a condition of government contracts.

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