Ontario New Democrats are introducing a plan to fight the climate crisis.
The plan aims to create a million jobs, and more than $1 billion in economic activity.
“Our solution is called the ‘Green New Democratic Deal’,” said NDP environment critic Ian Arthur outside the Delta London Armouries Hotel Thursday afternoon.
“It’s our commitment to a net-zero future.”
Arthur says the NDP’s plan encompasses three distinct areas.
The second promise, he said, is to leave “no communities behind,” and the third is to “work closely with each industry and trade to transition to a net-zero economy.”
“It’s a plan for the climate, for jobs, and hope for the future.”
New Democrats say they hope to release the finished plan sometime in the new year.
Meanwhile, Arthur says the team has already completed work on the largest retrofitting program in Ontario.
NDP MPPs Catherine Fife of Waterloo and Jennie Stevens of St. Catherines attended the conference with Arthur, and said under the Ford government, London is in need of an environmental strategy.
The NDP unveiled the plan just days after it was learned that under the Ford government, Ontario spent more than $23 billion last year to tear up over 750 renewable energy contracts.
— With files from 980 CFPL’s Jaclyn Carbone