Despite the usual nay-sayers here, tightly gripping on to a dying and polluting fossil fuel energy economy (some because they work in the industry), Barrington-Leigh is correct, and renewable energy will continue to play a larger and possibly accelerating role in energy generation in Canada.

He is being generously vague in stating: "In addition, we are energy hogs, in part owing to our need for heating and transportation that comes with a northern climate and dispersed population." In fact, with the exception of Alberta and Saskatchewan, Canadian per capita emissions of greenhouse gases are 12 tonnes CO2eq/year. The per capita emissions from Alberta and Saskatchwan, largely driven by oil and gas production and coal-fired power plants, are more than five times higher.