International Trade committee  Is your question whether this will help these countries? Yes, definitely. I think we have here an example of a Canadian clean-tech company that can export its technology and help these countries meet their greenhouse gas emissions performance in the context of COP21. Many of th

International Trade committee  I don't have the details by country, but in some cases we can be limited in the way we can manufacture our equipment for some of those countries. In some cases, it's for the biofuels. It's not clear to me that biofuels are part of the scope of this, but it varies. I don't have th

International Trade committee  I mentioned the U.S. earlier. Biofuels can move from one country to another easily; however, we have non-tariff barriers in the sense that they have an advanced biofuels RFS, a renewable fuel standard. They have tax incentives and they have accelerated depreciation that we don't

International Trade committee  No, I don't think that we necessarily would not have access to those markets. What I'm saying is that it will facilitate the access by, on the one hand, reducing tariffs if we want to export the final product, and also in terms of investing and building facilities there. We manuf

International Trade committee  There are really two ways to address a market in Australia. We could decide to ship the final product that we produce here. For example, in Alberta we convert the garbage, the non-recyclable and non-compostable garbage, from the city of Edmonton into bioethanol and biomethanol.

International Trade committee  We're an SME and we now have 200 employees in Quebec and Alberta. We see this as an opportunity to grow our manufacturing sector in Canada, because our model is based on prefabricating the key equipment in Canada for our international plants. In that sense, this does not create

International Trade committee  I don't have the details on all the tariffs, but I was addressing the tariffs on exported goods, manufactured goods. In some of those countries there are tariffs, so it's not as easy to export these manufactured, prefabricated modules to develop facilities outside. It's really di

International Trade committee  Our business model is based on two things. We try to develop factories in these countries. We are already in discussions with some industrial partners. Here, we are talking about exporting our technology and investing in partnership with local investors in some factories. Some c

International Trade committee  We already have a free-trade agreement. As for biofuels, the goods move very easily from country to country. Perhaps what I was talking about did not fall within the agreement. Now that we have solved the problem of access to this market, there is an imbalance in the policies on

International Trade committee  I'll give my remarks in both French and English. Thank you very much for inviting us to give our point of view about the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement. Enerkem is a technology-based SME that produces biofuels and green chemicals from waste materials. With our exclusive, c