Commentary Any suggestion that we should consider reopening Canada’s Constitution to solve our increasingly serious problems usually evokes snorts of derision and eye-rolling. The last attempts—Mulroney’s failed Meech Lake Accord in 1990, and Charlottetown in 1992—left the nation with constitutional fatigue. Those failures also left politicians understandably gun-shy of ever opening up that Pandora’s box…
Federal Labour Minister Says Canada Needs More Workers in Oil and Gas Sector, Not Fewer
Federal Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says Canada needs more oil and gas workers and that he doesn’t like the phrase “just transition.” “I’ve said this for years,” said O’Regan in the Senate Question Period on Feb. 9. “‘Just transition’ is a phrase that workers hate, and my constituents don’t like, and so I don’t like…
Canadians Mostly Unaware of Liberals’ ‘Just Transition’ Away From Oil: Poll
A new poll suggests that Canadians are mostly unaware of the Trudeau government’s plan for a “just transition,” which entails moving workers out of the oil and gas sector and into jobs it deems more sustainable. The Postmedia-Léger poll says that 84 percent of people surveyed have no idea what the “just transition” entails. A…
Premier Smith Tells Trudeau Alberta Energy Sector Won’t Be ‘Phased Out’
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had her first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 7 in Ottawa and said that her province’s energy sector would not be phased out as part of the Liberal government’s plan for a “just transition.” Trudeau and Smith had a brief media availability before their meeting, with Smith…
Premier Smith Tells Trudeau Alberta’s Energy Sector Won’t Be ‘Phased Out’
In her first face-to-face meeting with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Feb. 7, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said her province’s energy sector will not be phased out as part of the Liberal government’s plan for a “just transition.” Trudeau and Smith had a brief media availability before their meeting, with Smith noting areas…
Alberta Premier Says Feds’ Just Transition Plan a ‘Big Threat’ to Oil and Gas Industry
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Tuesday that the federal government’s so-called just transition plan is a “big threat” to the province’s oil and natural gas industry. At a news conference, she said the language that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Liberal government are using when they talk about just transition “is language that they…
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