Let’s build a more resilient Canada.
327 signatories representing 2,140 companies have now signed on to support a resilient recovery.
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COVID-19 has disrupted our way of life, and immediate relief has rightfully been the priority of governments. But as the conversation in Canada evolves to one of economic recovery, important questions arise.
What does recovery look like? How can we deliver a cleaner, innovative and diverse economy? How do we ensure recovery measures aren’t just shovel-ready but shovel-worthy?
Federal and provincial government stimulus and recovery efforts can create jobs, encourage economic diversification and equity, spur cleantech innovation, cut both carbon pollution and illness-causing air pollution, and make Canada more resilient.
We ask Canadian governments to commit to a three-part recovery and resilience plan:
1. Invest stimulus into Canada’s fast-growing clean energy and cleantech sectors and businesses committed to the local production and export of world-leading low- and zero-carbon commodities;
2. Act quickly to support clean energy and cleantech solutions and businesses by expanding existing initiatives and programs; and
3. Share loud and clear that Canada will continue and expand on its best-in-class climate and environmental policies.
We can’t leave any sector or region behind. That means training and retraining for Canadians whose past jobs may not return, in programs that can and should start now while unemployed workers are sitting at home.
The clean energy sector employs 298,000 Canadians in a wide range of jobs: insulating homes, developing clean technologies and energy storage solutions, manufacturing electric vehicles and deploying charging infrastructure, building and maintaining wind, solar and hydro projects, producing renewable fuels and more.
Climate leadership is also enhancing competitiveness and creating new opportunities in other sectors of the economy. These include present and future jobs in low-carbon concrete, steel and aluminum, the auto sector, sustainably produced mass timber, agriculture, and mining or supplying the metals and minerals used in many clean technologies.
A resilient recovery creates winners across the country. The time is now to invest in people and projects that will diversify our economy and improve our health and wellbeing.
It’s how we build a more resilient Canada.
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Es design
Somerset Foundation
Geotab Inc.
TBL Communications
Citoyen Concerné
Provencher Roy Design Intérieur
Pisces RPM
American Clean Energy Solutions Inc.
Barkley Project Group
EnviroCentre
LINCit
Sustainable Hamilton Burlington
RESTCo Energy Inc.
Ameresco Canada Inc.
Acquire Industries Ltd.
Fulcrum Projects Ltd.
Avalon Mechanical Consultants Ltd.
CoEnergy Co-operative
envision SYNERGY
Volta Technique
Saskatchewan Electric Vehicle Association
SES Consulting
Envigour Policy Consulting
TBL Communications
Jupiter Hydro Inc.
Konnecta
energyhub.org
Letenda
Soluna Energy Inc.
City Green
iSun Energy
Firefly GHG Consulting
Waste to Energy Generating Inc.
Pacific Rim Engineered Products
SolarShare
MKB & Co.
EcoGen Energy & Build
EcoSafe Zero Waste
Chinook Power Corp.
IAQ Inc
Ayur Financial Strategies Inc.
Atticus Financial Group
New Power Post
Carbon Free Group
Fort Capital Partners
Passmore Group Inc.
Building Future Innovation
Arterran Renewables Ltd.
Fluent Energy Consulting
EH2 Solar
PyroGenesis Canada Inc.
Montroc Consulting Inc.
Kisik Clean Energy
Kitselas Geothermal Inc.
Canoe Reach Energy Inc.
Black River Wind Limited
Hazel Consulting
Electric Vehicle Association of Atlantic Canada (EVAAC)
E3. Energy Economy Environment
Richmond Sound Design Ltd.
Alex Milne Associates Ltd.
Hybrixcel
Geothermal Energy Research Breakthrough
Gateway Bicycle Hub
Sustainable Milton
Starlight Investments
Affecting Change Inc.
Up Marketing
Torrie Smith Associates
Energy in Cities group, University of Victoria
Electric Vehicle Society
COPTICOM, Stratégies et relations publiques
Map Energy Inc.
Ubiquity Solar Inc.
Decade Impact Strategy & Activation
Kambo Energy Group
Sundara Energy
Morrison Hershfield
Opus One Soluitions
Storage Power Solutions
Manasc Isaac Architects
LivABLE Environment
Resilience Planning
Africa Climate Action Initiative
Marnoch Thermal Power Inc.
Plasma Processing Laboratory, McGill University
Genieall Corporation
Climate Solution Group
Citizens Climate Lobby Canada
HAKAI Energy Solutions
Rumker
Sustainable Business Tours International
Sustainability Solutions Group
Adaptive Resource Management Ltd
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Polster Environmental Services Ltd.
eco-Options Energy Cooperative
Nikolov Consulting Ltd.
Renewal Partners
TruGreen Energy & TruGreen Metal Recycling
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Ogopogo Tours
SimpTek Technologies
Parker Venture Management Inc.