Finance committee  At CanWEA, we work jointly with the various First Nations in the country. Last year, we organized a seminar with the First Nations and the wind industry on how to work in partnership with those communities and how to work to identify those sites, where they are, where we can also

Finance committee  Some European countries, which are leaders, Germany, Denmark, Spain and others, have established a vision and are making this a priority. They have determined objectives and ways of achieving them. What does that mean? That means job creation, regional economic development and we

Finance committee  First, Mr. Mulcair, thank you for giving me a chance to speak on this point. I think you're probably getting to the heart of the matter. That's why, in our presentation today, we're asking that the program be improved and extended until 2014. Why 2014? Because, as we'll see, tha

Finance committee  Yes, to make it work, but--

Finance committee  If you consider the size of Canada and its coastal areas, the potential is enormous. We have a world class wind resource. Our association anticipates the development of 55,000 megawatts of wind energy by 2025, which represents 20% of power generation capacity in Canada. In Quebe

Finance committee  Yes. What we can see is that the program is designed to end at the end of March 2011. The program was so successful that it will have allocated all of its funds by the end of this month, October, in the fall of 2009. So the program is still on, but with no money. That's one of th

Finance committee  Bonjour. I'll do my presentation in French, but I'll be more than happy to answer questions in both languages. My name is Jean-François Nolet. I am the Quebec and Atlantic Canada Policy Manager with the Canadian Wind Energy Association. I am here to speak on behalf of Robert Ho