One of the roles of Finance is looking to the future of the Canadian economy, making predictions with greater uncertainty as you go further out, regarding both the potential benefits and threats to the Canadian economy. If one of the leading current threats to the global economy, identified by countries around the world, is an increase in global temperatures or an increase in the variability of weather, and so on, why have we not yet engaged, as a country that is very dependent on natural resource extraction, in that type of analysis?
On May 17th, 2007. See this statement in context.