To be sure, there will be panels and reports and recommendations regarding worker transition to a clean energy economy, and it’s possible that some kind of ill-conceived and damaging policies could flow from that. Mind you, the feds are totally capable of coming up with ill-conceived and damaging policies on their own.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
While Bill C-50 is nowhere near as frightening as was advertised, last week’s report from the Canadian Energy Regulator paints a scary picture of what the future of the energy sector might look like. It’s hard to know just how smooth the global path to net zero will be, but the steps taken by other countries will have a big impact on Canada, regardless of what Ottawa does or doesn’t do.