Creating a sustainable future: Canadian colleges rising to Freeland’s challenge

If we don't have the workers trained in necessary jobs in emerging sectors of the economy, Canada will be left behind.

In her budget speech on March 28, 2023, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said, 'Canada must either meet this historic moment—this remarkable opportunity before us—or we will be left behind as the world's democracies build the clean economy of the 21st century.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY RON MCKERLIE

May 10, 2023

Globally, we are seeing a rapid transition to a decarbonized, sustainable economy, as evidenced by the implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act in the United States, and the Green Deal Industrial Plan in the European Union.

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