Thank you for that.
Yes, they have. It's taken us a while to get there but it is to get the policies focused on the pollutant, on the greenhouse gases, and not harming a particular industry or region.
I'll just quickly say that I published a book 20 years. It did quite well. It won the Donner Prize. It was called Sustainable Fossil Fuels, and the reason I wrote that book was to get people to understand that if you care about climate, it doesn't mean that you have to be against fossil fuels.
We have tons of fossil fuels in the earth's crust—they're all over the planet—and so we need to make sure that we stop polluting whether in the production of fossil fuels or in the consumption of products made from them, like hydrogen and electricity. That's the focus of my remarks.
To me it almost seems trivial to say that, but I do know that in the dialogue across the country, the very reason I wrote that book was because people still say, oh, you're trying to hammer Alberta, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and so on. The idea is to solve a global problem, so we have to focus on emissions, not the production.