The federal Department of Natural Resources says the government’s proposed “just transition” legislation won’t eliminate jobs—as critics has said seemed to be implied by an internal briefing document—but will instead create more jobs, according to a media report.
“The federal government’s approach to sustainable jobs is about creating jobs, not eliminating them,” department press secretary Keean Nembhard told CBC News on Jan. 17.
The department was responding to media reports about a briefing note prepared for Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson in June 2022, which said Ottawa’s planned “transition to a low-carbon economy will have an uneven impact across sectors, occupations, and regions, and create significant labour market disruptions.”…