That's one of the reasons we, in our labour coalition, put together an Alberta blueprint, because given our federal structure, this will work only if the provinces get on board. I'm worried that this isn't happening, especially in the provinces where the heaviest lifting will have to be done. Those are the oil- and gas-producing provinces, like my home province of Alberta. We have 12% of the population. We produce 40% of the emissions. Oil and gas, which is the industry that will be most affected by this transition, is the biggest industry in the province.
As a country, we're not going to reach our goals, we're not going to be able to pivot and we may fall behind if we don't get our act together in places like Alberta. It's not going to happen unless our provincial governments get on board. Unfortunately, that's what I'm really worried about. I mentioned the moratorium that our provincial government placed on renewable energy investment, which shocked everyone and is counter to the best interests of our province and our economy. They've also refused to engage in the creation of a regional table with the federal government to talk about how to spend this money that the federal government earmarked in the last federal budget.
That's what we need. As a representative of hundreds of thousands of workers in Alberta, I'm actually despairing, because I think we're going to miss opportunities if we don't—I think one of the other guests said it—put politics aside. This should be a non-partisan issue. If we don't do that, we're going to miss opportunities—