Another $300 million down the green drain — feds can’t prove jobs or emission cuts
The thousands of "well-paying middle-class jobs" promised by the Liberals appear to have never materialized.
It’s been seven years and over $300 million later—and the Liberals still can’t answer a simple question: Where are the jobs?
As first reported by Blacklock's, according to a damning internal audit from the Department of Natural Resources, not only can the government not prove a single job was created by its so-called green innovation programs, but the department actually stopped collecting the data needed to prove anything at all.
They just quit keeping track.
Audit @NRCan discloses $300M climate programs that promised new jobs & lower emissions proved neither after 7 yrs: "There are areas of improvement and lessons learned." https://t.co/DqvZTP87Ze @EnvironmentCa pic.twitter.com/N0MUxZDgsu
— Blacklock's Reporter (@mindingottawa) June 30, 2025
The Smart Grid Program and the Emerging Renewable Power Program, launched with great fanfare in 2018, were supposed to revolutionize Canada’s energy sector while creating “well-paying middle-class jobs.” But a new report, Evaluation Of The Smart Grid Program And Emerging Renewable Power Program, quietly admits that the feds can’t verify lower emissions, improved electricity systems, or any job creation whatsoever.
“Removing annual reporting increases the risk of poor quality performance information,” the report notes—translation: we can’t prove anything.
Worse, the feds admitted they stopped tracking greenhouse gas reductions halfway through the project. Why? Because they didn’t expect “meaningful data” until the end—at which point, they say, it’ll probably be “too difficult and too late” to fix anything.
The Trudeau government has made a habit of selling pipe dreams padded with inflated job numbers. Remember the $950 million Superclusters program that promised 50,000 jobs? It failed to track actual job creation. Or the $1 billion Strategic Innovation Fund that pledged 56,000 new positions—and delivered just 6,613.
Sheila Gunn Reid
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Sheila Gunn Reid is the Alberta Bureau Chief for Rebel News and host of the weekly The Gunn Show with Sheila Gunn Reid. She's a mother of three, conservative activist, and the author of best-selling books including Stop Notley.
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Bernhard Jatzeck commented 2025-06-30 20:30:50 -0400Why go through the effort in creating wealth when one can simply confiscate it after letting someone else do all the hard work? -
Bruce Atchison commented 2025-06-30 19:44:35 -0400Governments can’t create wealth. Only private enterprise can do that. Socialist ideas always fail because they don’t recognize the true nature of humanity. Neither do they understand that people like to manage their own affairs with no interference from Ottawa. Canada has too many people who figure the government must hold their hands and give them things. No wonder more than 40% of Albertans want to divorce Ottawa.
