However, not coincidentally, crushing the Alberta economy would also help the Liberal party firm up its support in Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Vancouver, where many voters are completely clueless about how a modern industrial nation and economy work, but are easily pumped up by environmental bombast.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
Second , the idea that transitioning workers from one energy sector to the other is as simple as retraining them is hogwash of the highest order.The Liberal government of Ontario tried a very similar transition in the 2010s under its Green Energy Act. It cost the Ontario economy nearly 200,000 well-paying manufacturing jobs, while at most creating 12,000 new jobs in alternate energies. That’s one job created for every six lost.
Want to know the real kicker? Ontario’s auditor general calculated that all the economic pain inflicted by that province’s transition did nothing to reduce carbon emissions. The planet was not saved despite all those workers, families and businesses suffering.
Delibertately killing the western Cdn economy to gain votes in Ontario. And they wonder why there's a western separatist movement.....