Environment committee  No, that's fine. I've made my main recommendations. The rest of my presentation was strictly focused on the one project/one assessment proposal, as well as concluding remarks. Thank you very much.

Environment committee  Yes, I'll comment on the first part and then allow Mr. Toner to answer more directly, based on examples on the ground. With respect to the $293 billion for required investments, we are at a point in Canada at the moment where we need to make investments today for those electrici

Environment committee  Perhaps Mr. Toner can answer this from a company's perspective.

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Merci beaucoup. Members of the standing committee, I'm pleased to appear before the committee today to provide the Canadian Electricity Association's perspective and views on the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act and our recommendations for ch

Finance committee  Yes, we will. We certainly will, and if the committee wishes to have us present again in more detail, we'd be happy to do so.

Finance committee  To answer the question, some of the areas Canada could be working in, in terms of innovation, may be around energy storage options, for example. If we are able to store electricity from variable generation, like wind, solar, etc., we'd be able to use that for baseload power, whic

Finance committee  Currently, from a federal government perspective, as we put forward in our submission, what we're seeking primarily right now is regulatory certainty and predictability and consistency in application. We have a number of federal statutes that we have to apply and abide by, whet

Finance committee  Thank you for your question. For the ecoENERGY programs related to efficiency, we have publicly supported those programs. When the minister announced.... Most recently, it was the ecoENERGY retrofit program, for example. We have been putting out press releases in support of that

Finance committee  Yes, Canada still has one of the lowest prices at the consumer level, and certainly also for industrial consumers. Canada still ranks...when we look at the charts, even with prices increasing across the country as a result of infrastructure investments. Part of the problem that

Finance committee  We have made a number of submissions in the past. As we recommended last year, we are once again asking for reform of key federal acts to enable investment in electricity infrastructure, specifically the Species at Risk Act and others. Thank you.

Finance committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Merci, monsieur le président. My name is Sandra Schwartz. I am the vice-president of policy advocacy with the Canadian Electricity Association. Every day our member utilities generate, transmit, and distribute electricity to industrial, commercial, reside