Ministry of Just Transition
We’re accelerating Canada’s transition to a green economy while taking care of
workers, communities, and everyday people.
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Transition is inevitable. Justice is up to us.
What is the Just Transition?
The Just Transition is our collective undertaking to get Canada off fossil fuels fast while improving everything about how we live: how we move around, feed ourselves, earn a living, and take care of each other. This is not just the work of your government. This is the work of all of us.
We are leaving behind an economy that traps most of us in dead end jobs, while a tiny elite rakes in cartoonish profits. Instead, we are sharing the wealth and protecting the health of people and the planet. We are building a future based on care and repair.
Indigenous Leadership
All of this progress is proceeding in partnership with Indigenous communities who are not only fully consulted, but at the table for the planning and implementation of every single Ministry of Just Transition project. We’re finally making long overdue investments in Indigenous-led initiatives to develop safe housing, ensure clean drinking water for all; and expanding community-owned renewable energy sources. Learn more about our partnerships with Indigenous communities.
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We’re following your lead
Two-thirds of Canadians want the federal government to take bolder, faster action to respond to climate change
– Abacus Data, 2021
75% agree that the energy transition will benefit us in the long term
– Abacus Data, 2021
Majority of oil, gas and coal workers want climate solutions that create green jobs
– Iron and Earth, 2021
Latest
- Indigenous-owned Crown Corporation to End Boil Water Advisories celebrates 3rd birthday – June 8, 2025
- Meet the oil and gas workers joining the green economy thanks to free retraining programs – June 5, 2025
- Repurposing steel from the decommissioned Trans Mountain pipeline – May 22, 2025
- Good Work Guarantee program reaches one million jobs milestone – April 14, 2025
- Watch: Minister’s update on national green public housing push – March 21, 2025
Ministry Initiatives
We’re making sure the transition to a green economy addresses centuries of deep inequality in access to services and the basic necessities of human life.
We ended fossil fuel subsidies, stopped the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, and raised taxes on corporations and the wealthy few to fund the rapid energy transition.
We made critical investments to retrain and skill up workers from the oil and gas industry and connect them with green jobs in booming green industries as we transition off fossil fuels.
We made massive investments to safeguard the health of people and the planet by creating millions of green, unionized jobs to ensure no one is left behind in the transition to a green economy that works for all.
How we got here
“Investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure is moral and economic madness.” These words from UN Secretary General António Guterres, the release of the 2022 IPCC climate reports, and the brutal climate disasters that followed sparked a new wave of pressure from the Canadian public and moved our government to finally take real action on the climate emergency. Now, in the year 2025, we’re close to celebrating the 3 year anniversary of the Ministry of Just Transition!
How are we paying for this?
We’re finally making polluters and wealthy elites pay up. By ending fossil fuel subsidies, enforcing existing laws to make sure fossil fuel companies pay to clean up their messes, and raising taxes on rich individuals and corporations, we have easily closed the revenue gap. Learn more about how we’re making polluters pay.
Is this real?
No, but it should be. To tackle the climate emergency Canada needs to rapidly transition off fossil fuels. This is possible with a big, bold Just Transition Act and a Ministry of Just Transition that will lead the shift to a 100% renewable energy economy while protecting workers and serving communities.
Help us pressure the Trudeau government to deliver the future we deserve.