Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. CGA, the Canadian Gas Association, is the voice of Canada's natural gas delivery industry. Our companies meet the needs of more than 6.7 million customers, representing well over half the Canadian population and using over 450,000 kilometres of undergrou

Finance committee  On diesel replacement, in our submission we're clear on the opportunity that's represented. There are already examples of diesel replacement by gas utilities in various provinces. We cite three in our submission. I'd be happy to talk in more detail about those at some point. Th

Finance committee  Sure. Thank you for the question. Issue number one is transportation infrastructure. Building out new transportation infrastructure is expensive, no matter what. I think what happened with the opportunity for natural gas transportation infrastructure was that the reality of that

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the opportunity to appear today. By way of introduction, the Canadian Gas Association is the voice of Canada's natural gas delivery industry. We deliver natural gas to over seven million customer locations; that's homes, businesses and ind

Finance committee  First, on rural expansion, the interest is coming from many members like you. Many of your colleagues on the government backbenches have come to us with a specific request in response to demands from constituents, so it's responding to a reality on the ground. People are saying,

Finance committee  We have, as you noted, a supply picture that's incredibly positive. It just gets more and more positive all the time. The Government of Canada talks about several hundred years of supply. The product is as affordable as it has ever been. I was in Nova Scotia last week, and I had

Finance committee  I'm happy to comment on that. Cybersecurity is a significant priority for us. In fact, it's an area where we co-operate extraordinarily closely with electricity and gas distribution systems alongside other critical infrastructure and the energy sector and beyond, for example, wi

Finance committee  I didn't check this morning, but yes, it's under $4, I believe.

Finance committee  The industry is quite supportive, and that support is growing. The challenge, as you know, given your own experience in the industry, is that margins are incredibly small. The decision to switch fuels represents a significant economic cost to an independent trucker, so the trucke

Finance committee  As you know, my membership is on the distribution side, not on the production side. Our file is not LNG exports per se. That said, a couple of our member companies are tracking that very closely, because they have LNG facilities of their own. I would point in particular to the

Finance committee  With regard to our proposal in our pre-budget submission for the expansion of the gas system to rural and remote communities—I focused on the rural in my earlier remarks, but it applies to remote communities—I would note that we're having conversations with players in the Northwe

Finance committee  A fund for rural and remote expansion would assist with the core infrastructure costs for communities like those in your riding. Straight up, that's the way we could assist. You mentioned the system in Inuvik. As you know, it's Canada's most northerly distribution utility. When

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, I would reduce the regulatory burden.

Finance committee  Mr. Chairman, it takes political will, too.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The CGA is the voice of Canada's natural gas delivery industry. Our utilities deliver service to over 20 million of your constituents in homes, businesses and industries through over 570,000 kilometres of energy infrastructure. In 2018 natural gas met 35