Greens promise funded tuition, apprenticeships to young people for jobs in ‘new climate economy’
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Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner spoke Friday in London during a stop at White Hills Animal Hospital alongside Green candidates Carol Dyck, Colleen McCaulley, and Zack Ramsey.
Marking the first election visit to the city by the leader of a provincial party, Green Party Leader Mike Schreiner’s campaign rolled into London on Friday to detail a party pledge to bolster the green economy through free tuition and guaranteed apprenticeships for thousands of young people.
Schreiner spoke Friday morning during a stop at White Hills Animal Hospital alongside local Green candidates Carol Dyck, Colleen McCaulley, and Zack Ramsey.
If elected, the Greens are pledging over the next four years to offer a year of free college tuition and a year of guaranteed work upon graduation to 60,000 young people in order to provide them “the skills and experience to work in the new climate economy,” read a party release.
“We know that the workforce of the present and the future is the green workforce. The workforce that’s going to install solar panels on the roof … of buildings across this province,” Schreiner said during Friday’s announcement.
“But we also know that if we’re going to take advantage of the huge job and career opportunities in the new climate economy, we have to address the labour shortages that exist, particularly in the trades.”
The initiative will see targeted recruitment of women, Indigenous people, and racialized communities, according to the party.
Asked how the party would ensure that green jobs would be available for the young people who take up their offer, Schreiner highlighted the party’s previous pledge for a $5-billion tech innovation fund and a $4-billion climate bank.
The $5-billion fund, he said, would support green innovation, green technology, mobility, bioproducts, and biomaterials, while the $4-billion bank would help fund green economy entrepreneurs and start-ups, and help companies scale up and commercialize their products.
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