The transition the federal government plans to force on Alberta and its workforce will be neither “just” nor “sustainable.”
Unless every laid-off oilfield worker can be turned into a lineman, a doctor, engineering technologist or bureaucrat, there’s not much chance their transition out of the energy sector will be “just” at all.In a briefing note uncovered in January, officials in Natural Resources Canada warned the minister, “Not every job that exists in today’s economy has a perfect twin in a net-zero economy.” The brief admitted some displaced workers will end up as “janitors” and “delivery drivers.
“We expect that larger scale transformation will take place in agriculture ,” the memo continues, “energy , manufacturing , building and transportation sectors .” During the 2010s, the Ontario Liberals tried a similar “green” transition provincially. All they succeeded in doing was doubling electricity and home-heating costs, scaring away 200,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs and creating, at most, 12,000 modest “green” jobs.Article content
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