I'm sorry that I don't have that figure off the top of my head, Mr. St-Pierre, but it's quite significant. Approximately 80% of Canadians live in urban areas, and 70% of global emissions are attributable to cities or the activities required to sustain them, like a power plant outside a city, for example.
I do have to challenge some of the comments today. It's not possible to have an all-of-the-above strategy. Science tells us we need to reduce emissions not just in Canada but everywhere, and things like natural gas plants increase emissions. That's a scientific fact. The opportunity from an urban perspective is to generate clean energy, build clean transportation and run our buildings fossil fuels-free. That's all possible. It's done somewhere in the world today. We just need to take the best practice examples and properly fund our cities and towns so they can help make the changes needed rapidly.
