Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses for appearing.
I want to pick up where the parliamentary secretary left off, with the question of whether or not we needed all major emitters on board, rowing in the same direction.
Forgive me, I want to bring this into sharper focus. We had somewhere in the midst of six minutes' worth of answers between two panellists, and I think I heard a footnote saying “yes”. I want to bring this into sharper focus by maybe proposing a hypothetical.
If Canada and the United States were to shut down, theoretically, literally shut down industry and everything else, will global carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, or would we have achieved stabilization, or, as you suggest as the next step, decarbonization?