The general public, no. But I believe that there will be a huge issue that's kind of percolating out there. There will be undoubtedly massive movements of human populations in the first half of this century, perhaps unprecedented, as a consequence of climate change, even if you take the most conservative estimates. And some of the recent work by some very respected economists suggests that countries like Russia and Canada will in fact, even though everybody is going to suffer to some extent under climate change, become relatively more attractive. And the question of how we will deal with those kinds of potentially massive shifts of human population, coupled with the navigable Northwest Passage and so forth, are extremely challenging questions that I think deserve some attention sooner rather than later. Even though it probably won't be a particular concern for me in my lifetime, it's going to be something that's going to be of great concern to many younger Canadians in their lifetime.
On February 11th, 2009. See this statement in context.