Funnily enough, if you listen to our critics who have also appeared before the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, their message is that Canada's laws aren't nearly tough enough and that the Americans outperform us even in places like Louisiana and Texas. They think we're environmental laggards. We don't happen to believe that to be true at all, and we think we have the evidence that says otherwise.
Other than this, I don't hear anybody else saying Canada is lagging in environmental protection, and I don't hear people saying that Texas or Louisiana or Pennsylvania are lagging in their environmental protection in order to attract these investments.
That's a key message. Someone mentioned we've reduced emissions by 69%. How did we do that historically? We made really big investments in new plants. That's how we're going to crack the next nut and go even further on that climate change journey: by making the big investments in new plants to get better jobs and a better environment.
If we sit with what we have, we're living on borrowed time, folks. They all have a lifetime. There are 15 years or 20 years left. There won't be major investments to help them get where we want to go in terms of environment. When we can attract that big new investment, we're all better off.