The federal government is betting big on nation-building projects — housing, infrastructure, mining, and energy — all of which depend on a skilled workforce. BGC knows that we need a green industrial strategy that will ensure we can keep the jobs, cut the carbon and build our collective future. All of this depends on the government being ready to invest in Canada and our workers versus increasing subsidies to corporations.
The scale of this opportunity is enormous, and so are the risks if Canada continues to fail to prepare. The Sustainable Jobs Action Plan (SJAP) must ensure that workers are the foundation of this effort, not an afterthought. We need to ensure workers are ready and trained to work now, and to have the resources and systems to ensure a ready and trained workforce into the future.
The federal government’s SJAP is a critical opportunity to ensure that climate policy does not simply look forward to the jobs of some random future but provides real, durable support for the workers and communities facing transition challenges now.
