Equiterre's Sustainable Mobility Analyst shows how clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.

Canada is falling behind its G7 peers. Our public transit systems need major investments to serve ordinary Canadians — by cutting costs associated with personal vehicles — and by limiting a major source of emissions. Revamped transit systems between and within Canadian cities can make it easier, cheaper and cleaner for Canadians to get around. Blandine Sebileau, Analyst, Sustainable Mobility at the Quebec environmental organization Equiterre joins the show to argue that clean mobility can help working class Canadians save money while making our communities cleaner and healthier.

This is the fourth episode of Class & Climate: Perspectives on a Green Economy, a short series from the Perspectives Journal and the Green Economy Network mapping how climate action can deliver jobs and long-term affordability for workers — while debunking myths that these goals are a zero-sum trade-off with a clean environment. In this episode, Sebileau makes the case for connecting the cost of living crisis with sustainable transportation.

Notes and further reading:

• Green Economy Network Common Platform: Public Transit, Good Jobs
• Putting Wheels on the Bus: Unlocking the Potential of Public Transit to Cut Carbon Emissions in Canada, by Environmental Defence Canada & Équiterre, February 2024.
• Public transit is the climate solution we need