His party's climate change plan calls for cutting subsidies to oil and gas companies as a way to fuel the transition towards renewable energy sources -- part of a general pledge shared by the NDP, Greens and Liberals to cut emissions over the coming years.
The future of the oilsands -- key to Alberta's economy -- has been a divisive issue for New Democrats federally and provincially over the past few years, and has even rippled through the labour movement, with unionized workers in the oilpatch and building pipelines. Singh said that oilsands workers in Alberta have told him that they want to find a path to more steady work outside the sector.
"So no matter how hard people work in resource sectors, through no fault of their own -- because of international, global markets, as commodities go up and down -- people go through busts and booms. People deserve better than that. The good people of Alberta deserve better than that.
Dont fall for it!
In other words no more oil
Right...the Federal NDP is going to make big oil great again! Ha Ha must be an election promise as in I’ll say anything.
Lol
The proposition that green jobs can equal oil and gas job losses is ridiculous and leftist CTV doesn’t challenge the NDP nonsense.
He claims that he will fund these things by taxing the super wealthy. He could and would if he could, confiscate every penny of the Uber wealthy and we would still be in massive debt due to his reckless spending.
Nothing said or promised by NDP or CanadianGreens has any meaning because neither can ever win the election.
leftylabourtech Yeah, he’s promising everything like Trump did!
Welcome to clown world....
Promises Promises Promises Promises Promises.........
Whatever, NDP will never create oilsands jobs.
But will still support Saudi Arabia. Pffft.
Diversify the economy in AB.
I think alberta remembers what ndp did for that provinces workers
THE CRIM8NAL RADICAL SIKH theJagmeetSingh THAT WAS NOT VETTED.. CANADIANS NEED BETTER VETTED POLITICIANS
Oilsands workers want their old jobs back.
Turn off the light on civilization but make there phone bill cheaper is not a good election platform Mr Singn!
As an albertan i say leave us alone singh and may.Oil sands generates 170 billion a year......for canada.
O bring back the make work programs you get your weeks for EI
He is not what he says.
Alberta already has a 6.6% unemployment rate.....is he going to retrain the whole town of Drayton Valley Really naive.
Look 👀 they to only know how to spend money.
I would love to know if he has a background in business,economics,and diplomacy
The insensitivity & naivety behind this pledge is staggering. What if he was threatening to shut down the auto industry in Ontario or Bombardier in Quebec due to downstream emissions, then promising to find those workers jobs elsewhere? Imagine the outcry. Ride that unicorn!
He‘ll also have to replace close to $100 billion in annual exports and 8% of our GDP. Probably easier to keep the oil sands.
L E A R N T O C O D E
New jobs doing what?
Yah sure!
JustinTrudeau has been trying to do this for years. It's not as easy as just getting them jobs and getting the pipeline. Scheer and Singh would have no chance negotiating with first nations groups.
What’s he going to do, invent jobs?
What help them find jobs that pay half as much.....while cost of groceries and taxes sky rocket......
What......growing turmeric?
So his first act must be to.. make oil workers unemployed due to his insane policy's
Oil and gas generates 170 billion a year for Canada. Butt out Singh
RightonJagmeet
When you plan on adding 150 billion dollars of debt within the first four years to an already trillion dollar national debt with no plans on balancing the budget, its easy to make promises. All because some people are up in arms about straws.
His own party in AB hasn’t endorsed him yet
Let me guess...in the government? As I recall when Raquel won government hiring almost offset all the other business shutdowns.
The insensitivity & nativity behind this pledge is staggering. What if he was threatening to shut down the auto industry in Ontario or Bombardier in Quebec due to downstream emissions, then promising to find those workers jobs elsewhere? Imagine the outcry. Ride that unicorn!
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How about the hundreds of thousands of Canadians that provide goods and services to the energy sector in Alberta and Saskatchewan ? Where are you going to get the revenue to replace the GDP contributions ?
From what used to go on up there I think rehab would help more
What the hell is this man talking about? Does he not realize most of the people he's shutting down from work are skilled and high skilled workers? Maybe he should do some research on what jobs he's discarding, the one that pay a good part of taxes. Move us all to the US?
More useless words
justtransition. It will work. Albertans cannot be asked to bear the brunt of transitioning away from fossil fuels. We have all participated in bringing the planet to crisis and we all need to share in the solutions. justtransition
Good stuff. Pay Canadians to be u employed and ship out tons of money for fleeing oil... I don’t know why people are so proud of this terrible strategy. This is literally how to collapse a country.
And where will he get his funding I wonder...
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