Jobs for Tomorrow

It profiles the characteristics and central role of the construction industry in Canada’s economy — examining low-carbon economic restructuring and the resulting demand for construction employment in renewable energy and energy-efficient buildings. [...] For the to improve the livability of the built construction trades that will build, retrofit, and environment, modernize transportation, restore society’s infrastructure in the emerging and enhance the natural environment. [...] The CEA sums up the history and context of the This is equivalent to the jobs created by more situation in its 2014 report, Vision 2050: The Future than 29 projects112 at the scale of the Hebron of Canada’s Electricity System. [...] This hypothetical In 1950, less than a third of the world’s population exercise gives a general idea of the deficit Canada lived in cities; now over half of us are urban, is in with regards to satisfying the demand for with this proportion expected to grow to two transit among the 81 per cent of us who live in thirds by 2050, when 6.3 billion people are cities. [...] A similar pattern compared to the total labour force during periods is also seen between the value of oil and gas of growth, as well as fall at a faster rate than the production and GHG emissions during periods of total labour force, during periods of economic economic growth in the early and mid-2000s and decline.