Thank you, Mr. Pacetti.
I'm going to take the next Conservative round.
I did want to follow up on that. It's interesting that Andrew Sniderman, who was a parliamentary intern in my office for a period, was one of the gentlemen who worked on the green bonds initiative. I'm sure you know Andrew quite well.
I want to follow up with Mr. Weis.
Welcome, Mr. Weis. It's nice to have another Edmontonian here.
I have a lot to say, but it's.... I find it a bit troublesome when we focus a lot of our environmental criticism on industry and companies and very little of our criticism on citizens or people themselves. We seem to disassociate our own actions as citizens in this country from what companies in fact are doing.
Just look at this room. Look at the amount of energy that's being consumed by us sitting here, and the number of lights on, and the carbon emissions as a result of that. Oil companies are not producing oil for the fun of it: they're producing oil because people are driving vehicles all around. Are we letting people off the hook to an extent in terms of what they're doing?
I'm going to go on to a further subject. I think the whole issue of urban sprawl is probably one of the biggest environmental issues we have, and frankly, it's in my own riding. My own riding grows 10% a year. I grew up in a bungalow in Edmonton, in Lansdowne, which is very close to where you live. Six of us lived in a bungalow. We shared rooms. It was just what you did at that time, in the 1970s, but now when I walk around my riding, I see homes that are six times the size of what they used to be. So even if we implement all the efficiency measures that we choose to, which we should, that is still a massive challenge that--
I'm sorry, Mr. Mulcair? My question is for Mr. Weis--