Finance committee  The most recent one is the eco-energy program that's been implemented by Natural Resources Canada. It has identified electrification as one of the opportunities. So we have made submissions there. It has broadened the landscape. Prior to that, as far as electrification went, we

Finance committee  If we're going pie-in-the-sky, one of the things that we recommend is Canada's green highway. Canada's green highway addresses exactly what you were saying and exactly what Mark was talking about, and that is building what we call alternative energy stations where you would pull

Finance committee  Absolutely: Electric Mobility Canada. The person can go to our website. It's all there.

Finance committee  Yes, we are. The road map that we've spoken about addressed strengths, weaknesses, opportunities.

Finance committee  No, that's the U.S. proposal. The U.S. tax incentive is $7,500 across every state. We're proposing a really different type of.... We haven't really put out anything as far as an adoption piece per vehicle. What we've said is that the provinces have been looking after that and t

Finance committee  In two provinces right now, Ontario and Quebec, there are programs for electric vehicles that actually lap the U.S. programs. In both provinces it depends on the battery size of the vehicle, but the maximum in Quebec is $8,000 and the maximum in Ontario is $8,500. We would be hap

Finance committee  Thank you very much. It's a great question. I address this light-heartedly, but the reality is, as you're well aware, that doing a technology road map is an onerous undertaking, and we spent a little bit more than a year and a half doing so. When we submitted it in 2009, it was

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. It's a very good one. The Aspen Institute has put numbers down that for every 10,000 vehicles that go out on the road, there are 250 jobs. So based on our road map, the 500,000 vehicles that would hit the streets of Canada would probably account for

Finance committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Good morning, everybody, and thank you for having us here. I'm the chairman of Electric Mobility Canada. I've been in this position for about six years now, and we've been advocating for the use of electric traction as an alternative to fossil