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Natural Resources committee  I'm not an expert on electrification. I think if we are serious about climate change, we will have to use more electricity in the future, but I won't comment further than that.

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Michelle Brownlee

Natural Resources committee  I won't point to specific technologies as the ones to invest in. I don't think that's the role of government at all. I think the role of government is to create the market conditions where those technologies will bubble up and come forward. That said, there's a lot of evidence

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Michelle Brownlee

Natural Resources committee  As I was saying in my remarks, the carbon price tries to capture that environmental value, or put a price on the negative impact of the activity. As such, it rewards the activities that don't suffer that cost. The cleaner technologies are induced or encouraged, incentivized, to c

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Michelle Brownlee

Natural Resources committee  Yes. I'm sorry. Generally, countries innovate best around what they already do best. That's where you tend to be your most innovative. For Canada, because we do a pretty good job in natural resources as it is, there's a huge opportunity for us to create market value and new oppo

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Michelle Brownlee

Natural Resources committee  Thanks for having me here today to speak with you. I'm going to share with you some of the the Smart Prosperity Institute's findings on clean innovation in Canada. We've spent about two and a half years looking at this issue specifically. We held a conference in Calgary with aca

February 23rd, 2017Committee meeting

Michelle Brownlee