I'll skate through these really quickly.
Elder poverty, likewise, has collapsed from very high levels to one of the lowest in the world. We're at the very bottom of the OECD. In terms of pension readiness, 83% of Canadian households are on track to retire without a problem. We do have a problem in Canada, but it's a small problem. It's a minority of 15% to 20% of working Canadians, and 7% who are already retired. Elders are the wealthiest people in Canada. Senior families, according to Statistics Canada data, have $650,000 in net worth. So our elders are our wealthiest, not our poorest.
I'll just finish up on these two, because I've heard some elected officials say that infrastructure spending has collapsed in Canada. Actually, it has not. It's at its long-term average of 4% of GDP.
I'll skip over these very quickly.
The last one I want to deal with is the municipalities because they claim all the time that they're running out of money. Municipality revenues are exploding. Their population has grown 11% in the last 10 years; their spending has grown by 43% in the last 10 years.
Finally, my final point is GHG emissions. We're told all the time that we have to be more like the Americans. We are cleaner than the United States on GHG emissions per capita. They source 20% of their energy from coal, which is the dirtiest of the filthiest of the dirty. We only source 6%. We are cleaner than the United States. We want them to emulate us.
Thanks very much.