The opinions and recommendations in this report, and any errors, are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publishers or funders of this report. [...] The federal government has ignored the growing evidence of climate impacts and the increasingly dire predictions from climate mod- els in favour of championing expansion of the very industries at the root of the problem, notably the Alberta oil sands. [...] In this paper we seek to construct a preliminary, in- tegrated framework for analysis of a sustainable economy, and to launch a dialogue about strategies the federal government can undertake to acceler- ate the transition to such an economy by creating a new generation of well- paying “green jobs.” We assemble some baseline information about green jobs in the Canadian context, and associated socia [...] Eco- logical economics recognizes that the economy is a sub-set of the biosphere, and places its emphasis on the inflows of materials and energy, and the out- flow of wastes, into production and consumption activities. [...] Can- ada’s proved oil reserves are now the third largest in the world (after Saudi Arabia and Venezuela), and bitu- men from the oil sands makes up 97% of these reserves.16 The proved reserves of the oil sands alone represents 73 Gt (gigatonnes or billion tonnes) of CO2, with the po- tential for almost double that amount with future discoveries and developments in the area.