Environment committee  Absolutely. It's a priority right now. Today we're having challenges with ensuring that we have a sufficient workforce for the electricity system that we have currently. The skill sets are going to change in the future. It is something that the industry is very much seized with

Environment committee  So it will be a bit of a slower rollout, but it is a rollout, at least with respect to the electricity system, that needs to be managed at the individual company level and within what effectively are 13 different electricity systems in this country.

Environment committee  Absolutely—

Environment committee  Thank you for that. It is about the individual consumer. When people say that it's the government paying for it or industry paying for it, what we're saying is that it's either the ratepayer or the taxpayer who is paying for it. It's not clear where all of these costs are ultimat

Environment committee  Well, I guess the question is that the costs need to go somewhere. They will go either to the ratepayer or to the taxpayer or a combination of those two. There isn't a third pocket from which one can draw. Our principal concern at this stage with respect to the energy transition

Environment committee  The number of days before the end of 2035—when the government has committed us to be net zero—is 4,851. It's not a lot of time. To meet the needs of tomorrow, Canada needs to start building today.

Environment committee  I thank the member for the question. It is indeed a challenging future that we're facing. There have been a number of studies that have attempted to give a sense of the scope and scale—anywhere between $1.2 trillion and $2 trillion. When we're looking at doubling or tripling the

Environment committee  Yes, the challenge to meet the electrification of transportation is certainly one that will be enormous over the long term. Have there been plans that have been articulated at a national level? Not with respect to the grid itself, but certainly there have been with respect to wha

Environment committee  Hello, Mr. Chair and committee members. My name is Francis Bradley and I am the president and chief executive officer of Electricity Canada. Electricity Canada is the national voice for electricity in Canada. Our members produce, transport and distribute electricity to industry,

Science and Research committee  There are a lot of different projections of what the specific pathways will look like as we go out to 2050. We don't subscribe to a specific pathway as we look to the future. What we know is that the math just does not work if you take any one of them—in this instance, nuclear—o

Science and Research committee  Sure. We have emerging technologies. We have some that are very close to demonstration. In my view, what we need to be thinking about now is how in the next several years, once we get to demonstration and implementation, our focus then needs to shift to how we are going to be abl

Science and Research committee  Thank you for that very interesting question. I think what we need to be looking at, and what many of the speakers presenting today were talking about seeking to develop, is essentially an expanded homegrown Canadian sector. We actually have a history of this. This is not new

Science and Research committee  To go back to something that one of the other speakers talked about, that it's a matter of math, I think it is. There are very limited pathways for us to be able to get to net zero 2050. The pathways that bring us to net zero 2050 will require an “all of the above” approach. We w

Science and Research committee  We're actually very close in terms of our approaches to this. The challenge, though, is that existing and current technologies that are available to us will not be sufficient for us to be able to reach 2050, whether one is talking about the current nuclear technology or the curre

Science and Research committee  In terms of what the Government of Canada can do, I talked earlier about supporting research development demonstration and assisting when it comes to trying to figure out how we're going to site these and move them through assessment processes. From a human resources perspectiv