The “just transition” legislation currently before the House of Commons Natural Resources committee mentions unions a fair bit. It also mentions what are effectively five-year plans, which was a common practice for moulding the economies of the Soviet Union and China during their darkest years.
However, outside of big-inch pipeline construction, refining, and the oilsands, there simply aren’t that many unionized companies in the oilpatch, at least in Saskatchewan. That is, next to none in the Land of Living Skies.
