International Trade committee  The work we've been doing is primarily around electricity. When we try to develop new transmission infrastructure, we're often working in existing corridors. In fact, in at least two of the three cases that I've mentioned, it's existing corridors where we're trying to add more, o

International Trade committee  Thanks for the question. We are in fact working across the country. We've done technical analyses and studies over the course of the last several years to identify the most promising projects that we think can help with emissions reductions and also keeping rates affordable for

International Trade committee  Certainly. On connecting clean power, when it comes to our power centre, Canada is in the envious position that we have a large share of resources, our electricity supply, coming from non-emitting technologies. About 82% of our supply comes from hydro power, nuclear and sources t

International Trade committee  Certainly. I can elaborate a bit on Atlantic and other jurisdictions. We have identified some priority areas where we have been working very closely with provinces and their utilities across the country to try to get the infrastructure built. We see the real value. You mention

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  As I mentioned earlier, what we did with the design of this particular program was to carve out a certain amount of money to try to target communities where there is a capacity issue. We recognize that not all communities are at the same level, and we want to have projects across

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm not sure if I'm the best person to speak to the Arctic policy framework. Is that what you're referring to?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't think that's the case. I don't know if one of my colleagues would want to mention that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  In terms of the first question, I'm looking at a map right here, and about 14 of those projects are located in that region. In terms of the capacity-building stream, we're in a position similar to the one we're in with the 43 projects. For about 10 projects, we're at the point o

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  No. We haven't funded any projects yet. It's still early days in the program. We've received applications, and we're reviewing the applications. We've shortlisted about 40 of them, and we'll be moving ahead with the projects. None of the—

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Well, getting communities completely off diesel is a particular challenge. A lot of the projects that we'll be moving forward on will be about reducing diesel dependency, just because, as I mentioned earlier, bringing wind and solar into communities is a variable form of energy.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I don't have a number to offer. I could tell you that it would be in the billions, if not tens of billions of dollars, to try to get every single community off diesel. I think the bigger challenge is not so much cost, but the fact that there isn't the technical ability to do it r

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  To tackle the first part of your question in terms of programming prior to 2015, I can speak with fair certainty that within NRCan there wasn't any specific programming targeted at this particular objective. We've had programs in the past and continue to have programs that suppor

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Marco Presutti, and I'm the Director General of the Electricity Resources Branch. I'm pleased to be here to share my perspective. My branch is responsible for the electricity-related policy issues. We're also responsible for a number of fed