Evidence of meeting #39 for International Trade in the 44th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was ira.
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2:30 p.m.
NDP
Daniel Blaikie NDP Elmwood—Transcona, MB
Do you think government ought to be taking a leadership role in that convening capacity, or do you think that's something industry needs to do, and then come to government once that's done? What do you think the process of improving that infrastructure looks like?
2:30 p.m.
Executive Director, Clean Energy Canada
From our work at Clean Energy Canada, what we are finding is building industry alliances and building industry task forces and approaching government with solutions they can understand and adopt is the best way. We've done it with batteries. We've done it on Buy Clean and clean procurement. I think we need collectively, all of us, to do it on clean electricity and on doubling our grid. That seems to be the only way to highlight that.
What we want government to do is commit to a strategy, more of a planning document, that says this step will be done, and when, and have all of the steps filled so we don't leave a hole at the end of the day and watch our investments flow back into the U.S.
2:30 p.m.
Liberal
The Chair Liberal Judy Sgro
Thank you very much.
Thank you, Mr. Blaikie.
I want to thank the witnesses very much for their valuable information today.
I am going to suspend for a few minutes, as we have some committee business to deal with.
[Proceedings continue in camera]