Join A December 10th Webinar on Effective Employment Transitions for Fossil Fuel Workers 

An Invite to All from Jim Stanford, a renown Canadian economist and director of the Centre For Future Work

Posted December 10^th, 2025 on Niagara At Large

Jim Stanford, Canadian economist and director of the Centre for Future Work

Once again, Canadian politicians have jumped down the rabbit hole of interminable debates over pipelines.  

A new agreement between Ottawa and Alberta seems to open the door for a new oil export pipeline – or does it?  

Oil executives promise investment and jobs if a pipeline goes ahead. Yet despite a 35% increase in oil output over the past decade (and 24% more natural gas), fossil fuel industries eliminated 38,000 jobs. Fossil fuel industries now account for under 1% of total employment in Canada.  

That trajectory will continue, even if another oil pipeline were built. That’s because cold hard economics, technology, and corporate greed are allowing oil companies to make more profit, with fewer workers.

For Canadians, the choice is not whether fossil fuel employment will decline, but how that decline will be managed. The process can be left up to private corporations, who toss workers aside with little support. That’s how 38,000 jobs (mostly in upstream oil and gas) already disappeared.

Or we can manage the transition in a pro-active, planned, and fair way: minimizing displacement and disruption for workers and communities, as fossil fuel work gradually disappears and other jobs expand.

An upcoming report from the Centre for Future Work will present new research on the ongoing decline of fossil fuel employment in Canada, and strategies for managing that decline more effectively and fairly.

The report, Worker Voice and Effective Transitions for Fossil Fuel Workers in Canada (by Jim Stanford and Kathy Bennett) also asks fossil fuel workers what sorts of supports they want, and lays out best practices in transition planning to avoid unemployment.

Join a one-hour webinar (https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__rE5VC-1STqD5KEGgenMHw)  to hear the key findings of this timely research, on Wednesday December 10 at 1:00 pm Eastern (10:00 am Pacific).

Registration (https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__rE5VC-1STqD5KEGgenMHw)  is free but essential. https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__rE5VC-1STqD5KEGgenMHw#/registration*   *   *   *   *

Thank you for your continuing interest in the Centre for Future Work. Please check our website (https://centreforfuturework.ca/)  for more of our research, including:

• * Key priorities (https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/10/08/this-is-not-an-ordinary-federal-budget/)  for the federal government’s fiscal policy.
• * An evaluation of Ottawa’s new capital budgeting framework (https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/11/05/federal-budget-2025-unpacking-the-new-capital-budgeting-framework/) .
• * Analysis of the challenges facing Canada’s auto industry (https://centreforfuturework.ca/2025/10/21/stellantis-shows-canadas-industrial-economy-is-on-the-line/)  under Donald Trump’s tariffs.

I hope to see you at our webinar on December 10!With best wishes and solidarity,                                                                                                         Jim Stanford, Economist and Director

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