Natural Resources Committee on April 27th, 2022

Evidence of meeting #18 for Natural Resources in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was transition.

A video is available from Parliament.

On the agenda

Creating a Fair and Equitable Canadian Energy Transformation

MPs speaking

Also speaking

Gil McGowan President, Alberta Federation of Labour

Jamie Kirkpatrick Program Manager, Blue Green Canada

Denis Bolduc General Secretary, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec

Sari Sairanen National Director, Health, Safety and Environment, Unifor

Roy Milne President (Retired), Local 1595, United Steelworkers

Lionel Railton Canadian Regional Director, International Union of Operating Engineers

Patrick Rondeau Union Advisor, Environment and Just Transition, Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec

5:25 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

Yes.

First of all, I want to thank everybody for making themselves available and I apologize for the interruptions that we've had today.

As I mentioned, you are invited to send us up to an additional 10 pages of thoughts based on the conversation we have had today or other thoughts. If you have specific recommendations you would like to send us for the just transition, you are invited to do that as well.

I will take the point of Mr. Angus at the beginning of the meeting. We'll see how our witness list goes for the rest of the study and see if there may be a way of bringing any or all of you back.

I know all of you online. This is our first week of hybrid sessions, and the hands kept going up. I appreciate your engagement. It's always regrettable that the time doesn't allow us to get to each of you, because I know each of you has so much to offer to this conversation.

Thank you so much for being here today.

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

Can I ask for some specific points?

5:30 p.m.

NDP

Charlie Angus NDP Timmins—James Bay, ON

If we are bringing them back, there may be really specific things that we may not get from anyone else. In the recommendations they send us in writing, I'd like to ask them to consider the concrete mechanisms we need for training that's done by the trades; training and upgrading; the bridging that's necessary for older workers, which includes pensions; the community investment; the relocation services; what plans we have in place to help those who are fly-in, fly-out; and the contract workers who may not be covered by labour but who may be very affected. Those workers could easily fall through the cracks.

If they have any recommendations that we could bring forward to government to say what has to be part of the plan, that would be very helpful to us.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

Sure, Mr. Angus.

5:30 p.m.

Liberal

The Chair Liberal John Aldag

I would say you can go beyond those ideas or suggestions that Mr. Angus has provided.

For our members, we will be adjourning after this. We're going to be back on Tuesday for an hour on this study, and then we'll be continuing in camera with the draft report on the emissions reductions fund. When the notice goes out for that, all of the draft recommendations will be sent to you, so you'll have them, and we can come prepared and ready to go with the discussion on recommendations.

On the 4th we have a panel of indigenous representatives. I think we have five witnesses lined up so far for next Wednesday.

With that, we're adjourned today.