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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I was going to say this is no different than the GHG debate. We are small polluters in the big picture yet some get fixated on per capita statistics ignoring the realities of our geography and population density. Now there's always room for improvement as I'm sure we can do better with our GHG emissions and waste but the reality is that we are always going to look poor relative to the rest of the world when viewed simply on a per capita basis.
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Yes, but we also enjoy all sorts of advantages due to our geography and population density. For example, the benefits of our resource extraction activities (which generate large amounts of waste/pollution) are spread among relatively few people. So why shouldn't Canadians both enjoy the benefits and bear the costs of our relative resource wealth and low population density?