To have a green economy, we need to do right by workers

The federal government should adopt the 10 recommendations of the task force to ensure impacted workers and their communities are not left behind. This is important both for today’s coal workers and to lay the groundwork for the proactive transitions of the future.

Canada's federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna's independent task force’s reports share a need for urgent government action to help Canadians negatively impacted by the decision to phase-out burning coal for electricity.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KEN NEUMANN AND TIM GRAY

April 1, 2019

How, and even whether, we should be addressing climate change will become a divisive issue in the federal election this fall. Tired arguments that pit the environment versus jobs and the economy risk taking hold. Canadian workers need real commitments to protect their standard of living. People dese...

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