Environment committee  Thank you. With respect to the orphan well fund, this is not a fund that's administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada, but we are working closely with our colleagues both in the Department of Finance and Natural Resources Canada with respect to that. The fund is sub

Environment committee  —adding plastic manufactured items to schedule 1 of CEPA.

Environment committee  The way we access our authorities under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act to put in place control measures is by adding an item to schedule 1 of CEPA. The proposal that's out for consideration and public comment at the moment is a proposal to add plastic manufactured item

Environment committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. Thank you for that comment. As I mentioned, we're in the process right now of active and ongoing consultations with stakeholders on these very issues. We are hearing from a broad variety of people on this issue. We will be taking that into account.

Environment committee  The government recently put out a discussion document that lays out a risk management framework for dealing with plastics and proposed an order to add plastic manufactured items to schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. In the discussion document, we lay out a c

Environment committee  Sorry. Can you hear me? I was having an issue with my microphone.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question about incentives for the purchase of low-emission vehicles. As you saw, the government allocated funding in the previous budget for the purchase of these vehicles and for infrastructure. The funding is significant and supports much of our efforts to i

Environment committee  Madame Chair, in the written material that I provided in my opening statement, I included the links to our regulation, as well as the links to our annual report. If I'm not mistaken, I also included the links to the work being done on the mid-term evaluation. I'll see if there is

Environment committee  That's fine.

Environment committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. The answer is yes. That is an issue that we are paying attention to, and we are looking at our electricity generation and supply system in order to be able to service the growing demand for electric vehicles.

Environment committee  I'm going to defer the question to my colleague, Marc D'lorio.

Environment committee  We're currently undertaking a mid-term review of our light-duty vehicle regulations. The current regulations go out to model year 2025. They are aligned with the U.S. EPA regulations. We're undertaking a review, because when we first set those regulations, they were viewed by ind

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. As I mentioned in the brief, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, we also have regulations to control greenhouse gas emissions from heavy-duty and light-duty vehicles. For light-duty vehicles, our standards are based on the performance o

Environment committee  As my colleague Ms. Vieira mentioned, we realize multiple elements need to be in place to increase the number of zero-emission vehicles, including incentives, infrastructure and education. The answer, then, is yes.

Environment committee  There has been work done to look at programs such as B.C.'s SCRAP-IT. I'll turn to my colleague from Transport Canada for further information with respect to assessments around the SCRAP-IT program.