As indicated in our exhibit, for the early decades of Canada's fight against climate change, the graph was going in the wrong direction. Since then, there's been a relative plateau and then a little bit of a decrease in the last few years of around 7% since 2005. There's no doubt that if there had been no measures put in place by any government, the graph would have continued to go up because of increases in production and population in Canada. The exact amount is subject to different assumptions, but it's certainly true that the emissions would be way worse than now if there had been no measures at all.
On December 9th, 2024. See this statement in context.