Finance committee  No, we actually think that this should be done federally. The problem that's happening right now is happening because there are long wait-lists of people who want electric vehicles and can't access them.

Finance committee  We think that we can get to 25% vehicle sales by 2025 and go out from there.

Finance committee  Automakers can make gasoline vehicles, or they can make electric vehicles. If this is implemented in a stepwise fashion—as I said, ramping it up to 100% by 2040—the automobile sector has time to adjust, and we will still be employing workers who are making cars. They will just be

Finance committee  What I'm talking about are the hundreds of millions of dollars that are going towards production subsidies, not consumption subsidies. We actually totally support your government's investing, two budgets ago, $700 million in various programs to get remote and northern communities

Finance committee  Thank you for the opportunity to present here today. My name is Dale Marshall, and I'm the national climate program manager for environmental defence. Advocates of environmental protection are often told that the cupboard is bare when it comes to budgets, investing, protecting