I'll be brief. I just wanted to articulate that I think it's a real opportunity for us as a country to look at a nation-building opportunity. You go back to the way our country was built in the late 1800s and early 1900s when this country really came together to build what was effectively a project that many people thought wasn't possible. That was the national railroad. It linked eastern Canada to western Canada in a way that really put the two sides of our country together economically, socially, and politically.
We can do that same exercise with what we would consider, in today's age, the modern transportation corridor, that being the pipelines. One of the things that I think we have to understand as a country is that 41% of Canadian oil was imported. We spent hundreds of billions of dollars layering the pockets of oligarchs, autocrats, and countries that have no recognition of human rights or environmental standards, and as Canadians we should be so proud to ensure not only that we can produce it responsibly but consume it responsibly here in Canada.
It's not to say that we want subsidies; we want the producing regions of our country to be given an opportunity to get to market. If we can get our resources to market, into Montreal refineries and across into eastern Canada, we can get it offshore and into other countries. That really is our opportunity. One in eight jobs in Ontario is the result of the oil sands. Hundreds of jobs and businesses are dependent on the oil sands and the oil and gas industry in the province of Quebec.
One of the most alarming statistics is that 90% of Quebec's oil is imported, and 37% of those imports are coming from some of the lowest environmental regimes when it comes to their oil and gas environmental record. We can do a much better job. We have a huge opportunity as a country. It's a win-win opportunity right across the board. Not only that, it will help us ensure that, as we transfer to greener technologies, we're not losing sight of the reality that our economies continue to grow over the next decades, if not centuries, on fossil fuels as we continue transition to greener types of energy.