Well, it's one of my favourite quotes, too, from C.D. Howe—he was, of course, an icon in the Liberal Party government during the Second World War—that if we lose the war, nothing will matter. That is certainly true of the climate crisis. If we do not do what we have to do, the conversations about what seems reasonable and how much we can actually do.... You know, our grandkids are going to shake their heads and wonder what we were thinking.
The point I was also making, or trying to make, in response to Mr. Albas is that if we fail to do this, the cost of the devastation that's coming will far surpass the cost that we're talking about now. The Fraser Valley in the wake of the atmospheric rivers last November knows that full well. I guess what I'm inviting all of you to consider out of that story in the book is the kind of cross-partisan unity that occurred. I would say this even to the Conservatives on this panel. The Conservatives were also in opposition during the war. They critiqued, rightly, the government, but mostly they critiqued the government for failing to prosecute the fight enough. I think that's what we're going to need today.