Thank you.
I don't understand how Canada can co-operate with the People's Republic of China on climate change. Last year, the PRC approved the largest expansion of coal-fired electricity power plants since 2015. Presently, through executive direction from the top, China is deliberately increasing the burning of coal. In fact, today, China burns more coal than the rest of the world combined. Last year, it burned a record amount of coal, and this year it is looking to burn an even greater amount of coal. As a result, global coal consumption, which was supposed to peak about a decade ago, according to the International Energy Agency, has not yet peaked.
I don't understand how we can co-operate with the PRC when it is deliberately and massively increasing the most polluting form of fossil energy, which is coal.