Thank you for the question, Mr. Julian. I am also very pleased to see you again.
The world's leaders are countries that have ensured that the right parameters are in place to promote the development of electric vehicles. They have encouraged people to purchase electric vehicles in a variety of ways, such as offering rebates and deploying infrastructure for the vehicles, like charging stations, throughout the country.
They also have ways to discourage the acquisition of polluting vehicles, by using a bonus-malus mechanism, for instance. Norway is extremely strict in that respect. It imposes taxes of up to 150% of the purchase price on buyers of polluting vehicles. We will probably never get that far in North America, but we can certainly learn from zero emissions legislation passed elsewhere in the world, such as in California. The state government there enacted a zero emissions law 30 years ago, and California has become the North American leader in acquiring electric vehicles.
Regulation is important, but public awareness is also essential. We need to explain to people how electric vehicles work, because there is a lot of misinformation and a lot of preconceptions about them.
I live in the country, on an island, and I can tell you I have no problem getting to Toronto, Ottawa, the Gaspé or New York in an electric vehicle. It is doable today, and the technology is evolving extremely fast.