Natural Resources committee  I will try to answer in French. I will say—

Natural Resources committee  I was going to try to answer in French but my children tell me all the time, “Mom, when you speak French, it hurts our ears.” Certainly I will try to do a bit of both. In particular, I think there are regulatory challenges in enhancing the maximal amount of export from Canada

Natural Resources committee  My comments were particularly directed to very small reactors, and it goes to the first nations issue. I encourage you to look at the reference in the presentation where we indicate that evidence was led and confirmed before the Ontario Energy Board that there was 2,081% worse re

Natural Resources committee  I just want to put some numbers on Chris' exact points, which I fully agree with. A 60-year-old hydro-generating plant has fully paid off the capital cost, can produce power for half a cent a kilowatt hour, and can export to U.S. markets that are paying 13¢ and 14¢ a kilowatt hou

Natural Resources committee  Certainly smart grid technology is the enabler that allows for two-way flow of electricity. We can look at the ability to use battery resources, whether they be community resources such as buses or a community battery program, or an intertie support or line support battery, or a

Natural Resources committee  Transportation is a very significant area. We should be facilitating electric vehicles and electric vehicle infrastructure, not just as a mode of transportation but also as a form of energy storage. Those batteries are in effect storage vehicles, so looking at optimizing vehicle

Natural Resources committee  Let me follow up first and foremost on his comments on storage. You asked very specifically about how far away we are. We're there. This is not a science project. This is now the third procurement for storage, which just closed. We have a total of almost 100 megawatts developed

Natural Resources committee  One thing that is currently underworked is the development of appropriate market rules. For many of our competitive markets for electricity, the rules were developed before storage was a twinkle in the eye. The technology is different at this point. Similarly, we have more distri

Natural Resources committee  As the youngest of nine children, I often say the power to convene—who holds the wooden spoon—is very, very powerful. To the extent that the federal government can facilitate the convening of provincial entities and provincial entities can facilitate the industry expertise being

Natural Resources committee  Looking at carbon targets, and specifically an emissions outcome, what I've called solving for greenhouse gases as opposed to solving for specific elements of the economy that may or may not emit is the way to go. That's certainly a very principled approach, where you can put reg

Natural Resources committee  That's also a great question, and let me start with an answer that's going to appear trade protectionist but is entirely trade valid. Under the NAFTA now, under the WTO GATT agreements, labelling is appropriate, and I don't think even we, as Canadians, appreciate just how clean a

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Thank you very much, everyone, for the invitation to appear. My name is Lisa DeMarco. I am the senior partner of DeMarco Allan. What I'd like to do today is cover four main things with you. First let me tell you a bit about where our perspectiv