Green procurement is a huge opportunity and a win-win. I think it's a tool that is unfortunately not being leveraged to its full potential here in Canada. The government promised a comprehensive buy-clean strategy federally a few years ago, and we have seen some promising steps through the greening government strategy, which focuses on preferring lower carbon, often Canadian-made, materials in federal building investments like the low carbon steel, aluminum, cement and wood products, but where the real impact could be seen is leveraging the federal infrastructure dollars that are going to provinces and municipalities for roads, bridges and the massive housing build-out that we're hoping to see in the next decade.
We would like to see similar buy-clean requirements added across all federal infrastructure spending so that we can build a better and bigger market for that low-carbon steel and aluminum, which is often Canadian-made, to help Canadian producers scale up.
When it comes to EVs, we could also be better at leveraging our procurement powers federally and provincially to set more ambitious targets to green government fleets and then meeting those targets, because that's been slower to happen than it should be.