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Originally Posted by Northendzone
to me given the number of jobs impacted and the billions at stake, do you really beleive the federal government is capable of delivering this without it being a mess.
this is the same organization that seemingly can't pay people properly and regularly. issue passports etc. all levels of governments also have issues delivering almost any project on time or budget or they are too afraid to tell us the real projected costs up front for fear of not being re-elected
And now we are going to let the shepard us into this brave new world driven by their ideals versus a free market economy.
to me this has epic disaster written all over it regardless of what government has the most seats in the house of commons
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I think this is the key thing though: Just Transition
isn't the Federal Government doing some soviet era central planning to push Oil and Gas out and force us to a green economy, they're doing what's currently happening. Playing with incentives/disincentives (carbon tax, regulation, carbon capture incentives, etc) and global market forces and the free market economy are doing the work.
Literally all the "just transition" is, is the Government talking about how to support out of work oil and gas workers and make sure they get the skills they need for the future economy. It's a stupid name but it's just going to be things like investing in skills training in AB for say, handling hydrogen or installing solar panels. Boring.
Which is why this is a giant nothingburger but it's being successfully torqued by Smith into a culture war and the scary Federal Government coming after us. Maybe the Federal Government flops at planning on how to re-train O&G workers, but the alternative is that they do nothing and Alberta definitely gets left behind.