Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you very much. I will give a brief presentation. Bill C-30 amends the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act. I will refer to it as the MVFCSA, because it's too long to keep going with that title. The Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act is a federal act tha

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  No.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I can say that the federal government has the power to amend the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act and to introduce amendments, but the purpose of my appearance is to provide technical information on the amendments to that Act. I'm not able to go any further and to tal

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  As I said earlier, the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act wasn't proclaimed in 1982. It was passed by Parliament, but not proclaimed. Since then, there has been a voluntary standards regime for the automotive sector. The government announced regulations for the automot

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I believe the Health Canada official is in a better position to answer that question than I am.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Thank you for the question. The current act provides for the capacity to make regulations, but it's not clear that you can have a regulation that is built on a formula. I'll give a brief explanation of that. In the United States, they have regulated standards for cars and light

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's right, through Bill C-30.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm not an expert in California standards, but generally I can say that the California standards regulate GHG emissions, while the U.S. standards relating to the fuel efficiency of cars or light-duty trucks are based on fuel consumption, so there are two different ways. If you

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  That's right. The way to regulate fuel consumption is through the Motor Vehicle Fuel Consumption Standards Act.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's a complex formula. It's not by company. If we go with the formula, it's by the size of the vehicle. It's the wheelbased size of the vehicle, it's not by company.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  For light-duty trucks.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'll let Catherine answer that question. She's the expert on that.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  This is more a policy question, really, than a question for officials.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  As we mentioned, the U.S. administration has moved forward in reforming the standard for light-duty trucks, so they're taking steps. California has taken another approach. But we cannot really comment on that.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Actually, this is one of the questions we had when we reviewed the motion. How do you define “international best practices” in that industry? Japan has some standards; the EU is moving with some standards; we know about California. But how do you define “international best practi