Thanks, Madam Chair, and thanks to our witnesses for coming today on this very important study.
Mr. Kingston, you mentioned in your opening statement the importance of Canada aligning with the U.S. in terms of their mandates in regard to the EV sector. It's very interesting. California has a very similar population to what we have here. The mandate that they passed in 2022 requires 35% of new passenger cars, trucks and SUVs sold in the golden state to be electric or hydrogen-fuelled by 2026 and 100% by 2035. Here in Canada, the mandate we have brought forward is 20% by 2026, 60% by 2030 and 100% by 2035, which is exactly what California has mandated.
Can you shed some light on this? I think we're very aligned, but you were saying in your opening statement that we're not very aligned with them.