Thank you for your questions, Mr. Généreux.
Are the targets actually realistic? That depends on one's point of view. It seems to me to be much more unrealistic to fail to tackle our greenhouse gas emissions more seriously than we are. That requires changes much greater than those that the Liberal Party is currently considering and proposing.
We should be modelling ourselves more on the Scandinavian countries, for example. They have not set 2050 as the date for reaching carbon neutrality. They want to do it as soon as possible. We have to look at carbon neutrality as an objective to be achieved as soon as possible.
You ask me whether or not that objective is realistic. Let me ask you: when some major players on the planet decided that they wanted to go to the moon, do you believe that they asked the engineers how far they could get? No. They said: “The objective is to walk on the moon. Now we have to find the means, to develop the technologies and to do what has to be done to achieve that objective.” I feel that we need that kind of mindset if we really want to protect the future for our children.
We must listen to the science, and we are not doing that at the moment. Basically, we are not ambitious enough.