Philip Lawrence at the Transport, Infrastructure and Communities Committee

On December 12th, 2024. See this statement in context.

December 12th, 2024 / 5:45 p.m.

Conservative

Philip Lawrence Conservative Northumberland—Peterborough South, ON

Thank you.

I'll get back to the line of questioning I was on before.

One of the elements that came up was with respect to batteries. Obviously, with the growth in the electric car sector and electric buses, there are going to be some massive batteries, and massive numbers of batteries are going to be on the rails.

We've all seen videos of firefighters trying to put out a single vehicle battery and it reigniting. What training or what resources has Transport Canada given you? Has the federal government given you any support with respect to those batteries?

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