There are many reasons to do this. There is, in particular, the pressure of climate change. Look what happened recently with Hurricane Sandy. I pay a great deal of attention to what the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has to say. Every time that the IPCC presents its scenarios, what actually happens is always worse than the worst- case scenario presented by the IPCC. The IPCC has been talking about this issue for 20 years. We should start listening to these scientists.
As a citizen and as a doctor, events like Hurricane Sandy concern me. The hurricanes are coming up as far as New Brunswick. In Montreal, we are witnessing downpours resulting from hurricanes in Florida. We never used to see that.
I think that the consequences are significant. Climate change really is not happening just in our minds. It is going to really cost a great deal of money. In 2008, Nicholas Stern, an economist with the World Bank, said that if we continued in the same direction, if we did not change the trajectory, with the same increase, we would see, at a minimum, a cost of $6,500 billion in damages. I think that these are good incentives.