First of all, I'm glad you raised India, because in fact Canada's emissions are the same as India's, even though India has 34 times our population. It's very easy to blame India, but in fact between 1900 and 2002 Canada emitted 22,600 million metric tonnes of carbon, which is almost exactly the same as India has done.
And this is the point. The key issue here is that it's not what's happening today: the atmosphere knows about cumulative carbon emissions. It's all very well talking about today, but we really have to talk about the cumulative emissions that a country has made, and in that respect Canada and India are on a par.
That's number one. Number two is—you've raised a good question, and now we're talking about ethical issues, in terms of who has the development and who has not—that what's going on in Alberta in terms of electricity production is no different from what's going on in India. Sure, they don't have electricity in India, and it's easy to get it from coal, and they do, but it's no different in Alberta.
The thing we have to realize is that if society—that's global society—wants to sustain itself, we'll have to go towards carbon neutrality. We're pushing climate to a regime that simply is unparalleled in the quaternary.
In order to reach carbon neutrality, we will need new technologies. The key issue here is that you want to be the leader in developing those new technologies, because the leaders will be able to sell those technologies to the world, and every person in the world is a consumer of energy. Rather than going into this kicking and screaming, which frankly is what I see as happening at the national level—and that's not partisan, but it's at all levels of government—is that we should be viewing this as an opportunity, as the province of British Columbia has done.
I'm seeing leadership in Canada, but it's not coming from a federal level; it's coming from a provincial level, where they see that there are economic opportunities and they want to be building those widgets first. It's just a shame that it's not happening at the national level in Canada.