{"id":86927,"date":"2022-03-17T18:32:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=86927"},"modified":"2022-03-17T18:40:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T22:40:45","slug":"n-b-labour-leader-calls-for-just-transition-from-fossil-fuel-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/n-b-labour-leader-calls-for-just-transition-from-fossil-fuel-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"N.B. labour leader calls for &#8216;just transition&#8217; from fossil fuel economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Extreme weather and flooding are among the risks associated with climate change for people living in the Sackville area, contributing to calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But the energy sector is a big part of the Canadian economy, raising questions about the future for workers who depend on those jobs and their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The federal Liberal Party\u2019s 2019 platform said the government would introduce a Just Transition Act to give workers \u201caccess to the training, support and new opportunities needed to succeed in the clean economy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rallies took place in communities across Canada this month calling for Ottawa to follow through on that pledge. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of that campaign, a rally is planned in Moncton this coming Saturday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It\u2019s happening outside the office of Ginette Petitpas Taylor, who is <\/span>Minister of Official Languages and Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency. She's also the MP <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">representing Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In response to a query from CHMA, her office directed questions to <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kaitlin Power, a spokesperson for the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Minister of Environment Steven Guilbeault. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Power provided a statement saying the government received a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> strong mandate from Canadians to \"transition our economy to net zero in a way that ensures no Canadian is left behind, and that is what we are going to do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daniel L\u00e9g\u00e8re, president of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour, is among the speakers scheduled for this weekend\u2019s rally.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">He spoke to CHMA about what a just transition means for workers in this province.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather and flooding are among the risks associated with climate change for people living in the Sackville area, contributing to calls for a rapid transition away from fossil fuels.\u00a0 But the energy sector is a big part of the Canadian economy, raising questions about the future for workers who depend on those jobs and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":86929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,222],"tags":[714,1201,13285,13284,13283,4121,824,823],"radio":[227],"origine":[274,275,277],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86927"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=86927"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=86927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}