Finance committee  It would be annual sales.

Finance committee  The requirement wouldn't be at the dealer level. It wouldn't be up to every dealer to sell 25% of their vehicles.... In fact, some dealers might not have any electric vehicles at all, and some might only sell electric vehicles.

Finance committee  You'd have that mandate at the national level for every car manufacturer that's selling in Canada. You can even set up a trading program so that those vehicle manufacturers that want to go further than that can sell part of their sales quota to other vehicle manufacturers. Make i

Finance committee  I'm pretty sure the auto manufacturers aren't going to just leave the large Canadian market alone, just because they get legislated to increase their electric vehicle sales.

Finance committee  The experience in Quebec is interesting because Quebec did put in place exactly that kind of mandate, requiring a certain percentage of their sales, and automobile manufacturers said, “Great. We're going to send all the cars we make that are electric to Quebec,” which basically m

Finance committee  Yes.

Finance committee  I have a couple of quick things. First of all, obviously, I feel for all the impacts that are happening there. In terms of the specifics that I talked about with the ZEV mandate, the electric vehicle mandate, this would be a national target. Automakers can sell those vehicles in

Finance committee  Your question is my job. I wish I had the answer.

Finance committee  I feel for the people being affected by climate change. That's why I work on climate change. In terms of getting people on board with respect to different regions of the country, each of those places will know better than me what the solutions are in terms of adaptation and miti

Finance committee  No. We should legislate that the vehicle manufacturers themselves reach sales targets for electric vehicles. That by 2025, for example, 25% of the vehicle sales in Canada should be electric, and you increase that percentage over time until you reach the government's target of 100

Finance committee  Our view is that the oil and gas industry is large enough. It expanded more quickly and increased greenhouse gas emissions more than any other industry in Canada. The reason we don't—

Finance committee  Please let me finish. This is a very important question.

Finance committee  We think that we need to curtail more production. It's big enough. It needs to be phased out and the science is clear on this. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says we need to be phasing out oil by mid-century.

Finance committee  It's not tomorrow. It's 30 years of a phase-out.

Finance committee  Sure. Norway, another oil producer, has done this. We don't even have to go to a foreign country. Quebec and B.C. are doing this. All it is saying to automakers is that a certain percentage of their sales have to be electric vehicles. That percentage goes up over time until we h