Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much for the introduction and the opportunity to meet with the committee. I promise I won't talk until the bells go. I'm here to speak to the proposed changes to the Energy Efficiency Act, as described in the Clean Air Act. The Energy Efficiency Act was brought in

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No, no such instruction.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  My area of expertise doesn't cover all the areas that would be required to meet international obligations, so I can't give you a complete answer. It's just not a fit. The Energy Efficiency Act, which I am here to speak to, wouldn't in and of itself give us the authority to meet t

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Sure, I have lots of examples. They include lighting products, in all sectors; commercial clothes washers; commercial dishwashing machines; all of the electronic equipment that we use in our home, and the standby associated with it that we hope to be able to regulate; mercury vap

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Sure thing. The way the act is currently drafted, we have the authority to regulate energy-using products per se, just as it is. This amendment broadens our capacity to regulate products that affect energy use but may not be energy-using products in and of themselves. The exam

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We're proposing to regulate 20 new products and strengthen the regulations for 10 products we are already regulating. We're certainly open to regulating any other products that come up where it makes a lot of sense. So we have a strong intention to do a lot of regulation. Throu

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Certainly some are made here. I just can't match up which ones and what percent would be made here.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We're announcing the intent to regulate these things. We are not at the end of our regulatory process, so we'll be doing them in phases over a number of years. I believe I supplied to this committee the list of products I'm mentioning here. We have a timetable to regulate these

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  When I was last at the committee to speak—the exact date escapes me—there was a question about what products we were planning to regulate. Within a day or two I supplied a list of the products we were planning to regulate.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's a very open process. We are very up-front well in advance within all the prescribed requirements of doing a regulation, because we want manufacturers to be aware of it and to let us know their views.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The previous question on the changes to the definition of what the scope of the Energy Efficiency Act would cover will allow us to regulate standby or off-use electricity use more efficiently. In other words, we'll do a whole class of these standby products together in one fell s

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Without the amendments we can still regulate standby power; with the amendments we can do it more effectively, by bundling up like products—

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  —consumer products, and working on them class by class.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We do a careful analysis with the aid of the Department of Justice of all such trade-related issues. We would know going into developing any amendments, and we know from having implemented the Energy Efficiency Act these many years, that we have no issues on that score. In other

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  There's currently a loophole in the Energy Efficiency Act that allows an organization to import a piece of equipment and to then ship it to another province without meeting the standard.