Thank you very much.
I will move on to Mr. Sanford.
In your slide titled “How Can the Government of Canada Assist the Growth of Home Refuelling?”, you talk about the need for more visibility. With regard to that, you recommend “encouraging or mandating the use of alternative fuel vehicles in federal fleets”.
The Directive on Fleet Management: Executive Vehicles, says the following under item 5.3.3:
Executive vehicles must be: a. hybrid-electric, if available from the manufacturers; b. factory-equipped for natural gas, propane, or E-85 ethanol fuel, if available from the manufacturers, where fueling infrastructure exists or is planned; or c. factory-equipped with a 4-cylinder conventional fuel engine [...]
What do you want to change? Those characteristics are already being promoted. They are included in accepted vehicles. I don't see how more could be done. Do you want those characteristics to be mandatory? I don't see how your recommendation could be applied. You talk about encouraging or mandating the use of vehicles, but that is already being done.