I would second the thoughts of my colleague from Blue Green Canada. One thing I would say is that the government deserves credit for the work it's done on the just transition for coal, including with communities, with former coal workers, with governments, and with the industry to make sure there is a plan going forward for those workers who will be affected by the phase-out.
Where I think there's an oversight is that we're focusing on one fossil fuel that we've acknowledged will be phased out, while ignoring that other fossil fuels, such as natural gas and oil, will also need to be phased out in the medium term to meet our Paris commitments and our domestic climate targets.
The government needs to start doing some thinking about how to manage that transition for oil and gas workers, in addition to coal workers, when we see global oil demands peaking and then decreasing within the next five to 10 years.
As we saw with the just transition panel that was struck for coal workers, we need to start thinking about oil and gas workers. We can start doing that by repurposing some of the subsidies that we're giving to oil and gas companies and using them for clean energy, for retraining programs, for just transition for the most affected workers in communities.