Today Canada is uniquely placed, with companies like Ballard and others. In Canada, we really have leadership in technology development and then we are providing.... Today at Ballard, we are exporting 100% of our fuel-cell systems outside of Canada. We sell our engines to U.S., China, as well as Europe.
One way to help would be to create demand here in Canada, as we discussed...everything requesting ZEV mandates. Especially for heavy-duty mobility buses and trucks, as long as it's technology neutral, I would actually invest in that. As long it meets the objective of having zero-emissions, regardless of whether it's battery-electric or fuel-cell electric, it doesn't really matter. Canada has a chance to be able to locally produce fuel-cell technology using Canadian IP and workers here. It doesn't require a lot of minerals, imports or anything. It's just standard construction material.
We have an opportunity to build on this industry here, but we need to create the demand for vehicles. Whenever we have opportunity with those 5,000 zero-emission buses, we need to make sure that both technologies—battery-electric and fuel-cell electric—have a chance to be deployed. It's up to the user to define what technology fits the best for the use case. It's for heavy-duty trucks, long-haul transportation and longer route coaches where hydrogen provides that path to decarbonization and zero-emission mobility.