I'm going to answer in French.
I think more quickly in French than in English.
General de Gaulle once said about something else: “What a wide-ranging program!”. The expression continues to be associated with him. I would say to you: “What a wide-ranging question!”.
I think that there are several hypotheses. The first is that a lot of Montrealers do not understand the importance of natural resources for our prosperity in general. I think they have the impression that this only generates wealth in the west, and that they do not profit from this general prosperity.
I also think that to a certain extent there is an almost religious element at play for a large number of Quebeckers. The environment seems to have replaced Catholicism in a way. I think there are a lot of reasons for that.
We have some very important work to do to educate and convince our fellow citizens, especially those in Montreal, of the advantage of developing our natural resources in an environmentally viable way, and I would even go so far as to say that we have the strictest environmental standards in the world.