{"id":512,"date":"2017-04-06T20:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2017-04-06T20:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T20:52:35","slug":"peter-julian-offers-bold-leadership-ndp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/06\/peter-julian-offers-bold-leadership-ndp\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Julian Offers Bold Leadership to NDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"513\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/2017\/04\/06\/peter-julian-offers-bold-leadership-ndp\/peter-julian\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Peter-Julian-e1491502370293.jpg?fit=366%2C491\" data-orig-size=\"366,491\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Peter Julian\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Peter-Julian-e1491502370293.jpg?fit=326%2C206\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Peter-Julian-e1491502370293.jpg?fit=366%2C491\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Peter-Julian-e1491502370293.jpg?resize=366%2C491\" alt=\"\" width=\"366\" height=\"491\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Peter Julian, NDP leader candidate 2017<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The economic costs of climate change increase every day.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Canadians \u00a0need bold leadership on a clean energy transition and job creation strategy for workers.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>Peter Julian \u00a0proposed his \u201cJust Transition Fund\u201d that will\u00a0<strong>create tens of thousands of long-term, sustainable jobs<\/strong>\u00a0through multi-billion dollar investments in research and development, energy efficiency, clean technology and renewable energy.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>This will be partially financed by eliminating federal subsidies to large oil and gas companies.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>The Peter Julian strategy also calls for the creation of\u00a0<strong>a national Smart Grid<\/strong>, and for\u00a0<strong>federal funding for retraining energy workers for new jobs in energy efficiency and renewable energy<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 the first step taken by other countries now leading in this important sector.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Finally, \u201cJust Transition\u201d also means developing\u00a0<strong>a better job strategy for existing fossil fuel resources.<\/strong>\u00a0With First Nations and community consent, we need to ensure that we are refining and upgrading oil and gas resources here in Canada as we transition, to ensure existing pipelines remain safe and to keep jobs at home.<\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4>Peter Julian has pledged that a \u201cJust Transition\u201d \u00a0will be his priority as NDP Leader. Canada has immense potential for job creation in this area,<strong>\u00a0it\u2019s time Canadian workers benefited.<\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Peter Julian, NDP leader candidate 2017 &nbsp; The economic costs of climate change increase every day. &nbsp; Canadians \u00a0need bold leadership on a clean energy transition and job creation strategy for workers. &nbsp; Peter Julian \u00a0proposed his \u201cJust Transition Fund\u201d that will\u00a0create tens of thousands of long-term, sustainable jobs\u00a0through multi-billion dollar investments in research and&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[43],"tags":[69,68,70,33],"class_list":["entry","author-larrynorton","post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-bc-politics","tag-energy","tag-environment","tag-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nortonspeaks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/Peter-Julian-e1491502370293.jpg?fit=366%2C491","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bppg-8g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nortonspeaks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}