In this episode of the Blaneys Podcast, Chad Kopach, the co-chair of Blaneys’ construction group, discusses the challenges facing the construction industry caused by COVID-19, including the unintended consequences to the holdback regime caused by the Province’s emergency order suspending court deadlines, “essential workplace” issues, and site delays. Our producer and sound engineer Varoujan Arman (also a lawyer) joins in with an interesting recent anecdote regarding “essential workplaces”.