I think it's one part of an overall menu that certainly should be promoted. I like standards in that respect, because they promote energy efficiency. Frankly, I just don't think that in North America we appreciate the extent to which we really are a pariah internationally, when compared to the rest of the world. We're ten times less energy efficient than countries such as India or China, and four times less energy efficient than countries in the EU. That's where we really, really have to attack this problem.
Our national circumstances were mentioned before, and I entirely agree. We are a cold country and we have many distances. But Norway is a very cold country too. Let's not kid ourselves, it has nothing close to the energy inefficiencies we do.
I would submit in fact that on the large distances, it's not so much the problem between the cities, it's in the cities. It's our whole post-World War II urban development.
These are not easy things, but they're very, very critical if we're going to be effectively addressing this in the future. We cannot continue to have these 905 communities that we have around Toronto. That's just not sustainable.