Environment committee  We are incentivizing the installation of electric vehicle chargers, fast chargers, and level 2 chargers as well as hydrogen stations and natural gas stations along key freight corridors.

Environment committee  That's correct. For light-duty vehicles it would be predominantly electric vehicle charging, although hydrogen stations are being deployed in metropolitan centres—for example, in Montreal, in Quebec City and in Vancouver—where original vehicle manufacturers are also deploying som

Environment committee  Natural Resources Canada says yes.

Environment committee  I believe that question would be for Natural Resources Canada. That is administered in the infrastructure program. We are working with all jurisdictions to ensure that we are supporting projects in not only urban centres, but in rural locations as well. Actually, a lot of our c

Environment committee  Certainly, in the new programming that we got in 2019, we are looking at hydrogen refuelling along freight corridors as well, because we do see that as having huge potential for long-haul trucking, whereas with a battery, you would have no room for payload. Hydrogen is absolutely

Environment committee  Yes, absolutely. The hydrogen strategy will look at all pathways to hydrogen production. What's really important is not the colour. There's actually an international initiative, of which Canada is a leading part, that is looking to get away from colours. What's really important

Environment committee  Range anxiety, absolutely, is a barrier to deployment. That is why Natural Resources Canada is spending over $300 million on two infrastructure programs to ensure that Canadians can charge coast to coast if driving their EV. In the coast-to-coast network, we are looking at having

Environment committee  Yes, as has been noted, we're looking at all instruments to increase the deployment of electric vehicles in Canada. We're looking at—

Environment committee  Is this better? Okay. We are looking at all measures: regulatory measures, and whether those are existing emission standards, mandates and incentives. We're looking at all instruments to see how we can increase supply—

Environment committee  I apologize. We did test it, and everything was working fine. Is that better?

Environment committee  Thank you. We are looking at all measures, including regulatory measures, to ensure that we're supporting the entire value chain. What can increase supply? What can increase consumers' adoption? What are the enabling measures like infrastructure? We are looking at what combinatio

Environment committee  I apologize. Can we try that again? Is that better?

Environment committee  As I previously noted, it is really important to understand the objective of the measures that we would put in place. Something like a SCRAP-IT program is very effective in accelerating fleet turnover. What that means is—

Environment committee  Good afternoon, everyone. This is one of the programs, one of the instruments that we have been looking at, to see how it can work together with the instruments and with the programming that is currently in place. A SCRAP-IT program is used predominantly to accelerate fleet t