Julie Dabrusin

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, we are talking about an industry that employs many in Ontario, which is my home province, and I work—

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, I worked on that regulation directly, spoke with industry and understand the impacts in the RIAS as well.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, I have worked on the regulation specifically. I was actually the one who made the announcement.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, what I said is that I work with the strong public service we have, which provides strong advice on which we base policy, absolutely, as we—

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, is the member opposite questioning the quality of work that comes from our public service? I believe we have a very strong public service that I am proud to work with.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, that is such a strange question. Obviously, I work with the public service, and we should all be very proud of the work that it does.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, EVs are actually a very strongly growing segment of the world economy for sales. We are making sure Canadians have access to them.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, the regulations have been set out toward making more EVs available to Canadians, moving in different progressed stripes all the way to 2035. That regulation remains in place, but we are certainly looking at—

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, we do have in place a regulation that sets consistently increasing targets for EV sales, going to 100%, and there are flexibilities built within that regulation that, if we wanted to have a larger conversation about, we could speak about.

[Business of Supply, June 9th, 2025]

Mr. Chair, it is a regulation that sets out clear targets for the sale of EVs and—