Canadian Politics Today

Per capita, we’re the worst polluter in the world. 

We're a highly industrialized country that has an extremely spread-out population across the 2nd largest geographic country in the world that has cold winters.  It's not like we're just wasteful polluting a-holes.  We're going to be higher than the vast majority of countries in per capita emissions no matter what.

We also have a ton of high-carbon oil reserves and an oil-dependent economy.

Again, we have 38 million people out of 7 billion.  Climate change doesn't care about per capita, it cares about total global emissions.  We have to do our part but we also shouldn't compare ourselves 1-to-1 to ie: most European countries.