All interesting points, yet if you turned off fossil fuels tomorrow Quebec would be crushed economically. You can't do it yet we can't do it yet. If you tried with an autocratic wave of a gun you would also be killing millions.
Your ambulances, firetrucks, restaurants and farms etc, all use it despite having a superabundance of alternative energy. The rest of the world have a much less opportunity to switch.
Until we do make the switch, without killing millions upon millions, it's a neccessary evil. We must end it. Until we do, it has to come from somewhere.
I was a big fan of the carbon tax. It was a politically expedient, but ultimate mistake to remove it that shows a lack of leadership and quite frankly, shows how stupid your average Canadian is. It's going to set our transition back a decade.
Europe couldn't do without even in a proxy war over Ukraine, they were buying it from Russia! That should help you understand how not ready we are.