Good afternoon.
I want to thank the members of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development for taking the time to examine the advances that have been made in clean technologies in Canada and the potential they represent.
My name is Daniel Breton, and I am the president and chief executive officer of Electric Mobility Canada.
Founded in 2006, Electric Mobility Canada was one of the very first organizations in the world to get involved in the electrification of transportation. Our members include manufacturers of light, medium, heavy and off-road vehicles, electricity and charging infrastructure suppliers, mining companies, technology companies, research centres, cities, universities, fleet managers, unions, non-governmental organizations, or NGOs, and so on.
In short, Electric Mobility Canada is the national voice of transportation electrification.
Today I will focus on the economy. Here is some important information on the great potential of electric mobility in Canada.
According to a report published by the International Energy Agency in August 2022, approximately 50% of the energy jobs in the world were in clean energy in 2019, which includes clean transportation. Even in North America, where there is an important fossil fuel industry, clean jobs represented almost 50% three years ago.
New energy projects are the major driver of employment, with around 65% of energy workers employed to build and deploy new solar plants, wellheads, electric cars and more. As you can see in the following graphic, raw material, manufacturing and construction are at the heart of this clean energy revolution, and electric mobility is front and centre.
Back home, in the past six months the Government of Canada has secured $15 billion of investment and tens of thousands of jobs in Canada's electric vehicle ecosystem. Canada is now developing an innovative electric mobility industry, from mining to assembly to infrastructure to education to electricity production and distribution, and more needs to be done, as this is the fastest-growing industry in the world.
According to another report published just a few days ago by Clean Energy Canada and Trillium Network for Advanced Manufacturing—in which EMC participated—by 2030, Canada's EV battery supply chain could support nearly 250,000 direct and indirect jobs and add $48 billion to the economy. When induced jobs are considered, a total of nearly 323,000 jobs could be created across Canada and $50 billion could be added to the Canadian economy.
Canada ranks among the world's top five countries when it comes to battery supply chain potential, largely due to its access to key metals and minerals.
To give you an example of the potential that Canada has on that front, note that there are two battery chemistries in Tesla cars today. These are NMC batteries, which were developed in good part at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, and LFP batteries, which were developed in good part at IREQ in Quebec.