Thanks.
Mr. Boag, you're not going to have to worry about building new refineries once Bill C-69 is passed, so you can put that out of your company's business strategy.
I bristle when CO2 is termed a pollutant. We're all exhaling it right now. It's the first molecule in the photosynthetic equation and I really think it is disingenuous to call it a pollutant. The term “clean tech” implies that Canada has a dirty-tech economy, which I think is absolutely false. I have the numbers in front of me here: sulphur dioxide is down 50% in the last 15 years; lead, cadmium and mercury are down 80%. As to Canada's air quality in terms of particulate matter, all our big cities are well within World Health Organization guidelines. Nitrogen dioxide is the same, and so on. As somebody who's worked in the paper and oil and gas industries on the environmental side, I find it quite offensive to industry to imply that our industries are dirty, because they are not.
Ms. Kyriazis, Canada has 1.6% of world global emissions, right? Good.
You mentioned a number of things that are going on in Canada now that have to be dealt with. You're talking about floods, droughts, forest fires, extreme heat. I should just preface my own remarks by saying that I started a farm in 1979 and have had a bit of a track record in watching weather in prairie Canada. The 1980s were extremely dry; the 1990s were quite wet and the 2000s went back and forth between wet and dry, so you don't have to tell a prairie farmer.... I'm not being pejorative here, but those of us who live in that environment are well aware of the perturbations of weather.
You made a link between carbon pricing and ameliorating these effects. How will a carbon price in Canada ameliorate what you listed as the threats to Canada? You talked about forest fires, heat waves, and on and on. How will a carbon price in Canada—and only in Canada—deal with those issues?