Thank you, Mr. Chair. I thank all of our guests. I very much appreciate that you're here with us.
We've had quite a discussion today about energy efficiency and its impact on sustainable development. There was quite a bit of talk about that also in the first hour.
One of the comments Mr. Sawyer made in his answers to Mr. Sopuck was that we're suffering from a lack of bringing sustainable development technologies to commercialization and it's one of the challenges we face. That brings me to some of the questions I have for Ms. Sharpe, because the work that Sustainable Development Technology Canada does is very much geared to bringing commercial success to the work that's been done as far as sustainable development research and actually bringing that to fruition is concerned.
Minister Kent referred to the government's approach to reduce GHG emissions in the transportation sector as part of our sector-by-sector approach. SDTC has played a key role in that in a lot of ways. I wanted to talk about one particular project that is very exciting and interesting to me as a member of the transport committee.
We recently completed a study on innovative transportation technologies. One of the things that obviously was talked about quite a bit was electrification and battery power. It was interesting because during the testimony we heard from a lot of witnesses who said, “We're not there yet. We're a long way off from being able to commercialize these products.” Yet shortly after that, in the fall of last year, we actually had an announcement in my riding of Elmwood—Transcona with SDTC and New Flyer Industries about the work that is being done there.
I wonder, Ms. Sharpe, if you could speak about SDTC's involvement in that project, and also some of the great environmental outcomes of that particular project which are readily available today, and also the worldwide impacts that those may have.