We are so f'd as a society if we get hung up on the arbitrary name of this program rather than the program itself. This is the kind of stuff that wastes precious time, money, and veritas. The way misinformation and hate grows like fungus is once again proving obstructive to how we move forward as a country.
It's not even a Canadian phrase. It's a world-wide one that showed up about seven years ago with regards to climate change policy at the UN.
Blame who you want about poor messaging and low fidelity politicking, but the program is inevitable, whether through a softer or harder approach. Feds have been consulting with the proper stakeholders on this program in a Canadian context, and head-in-the-sand or combative responses are not going to avert what's about to happen over the next 20-30 years.
For the record, the movement is intended to address worker's rights and livelihoods. It's not a movement that simply "abandons" conventional labor and throws them to the wayside. It's readjusting industry, economy, and policy for a more sustainable future that includes the workers in that map.
All this fury about "Just Transition" and tying it back to anti-Trudeau pablum is once again proving itself to simply be resistance to change. In other words, business as usual for human beings.
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