Finance committee  The obvious answer for us is the federal ZEV mandate that was announced by the environment minister a few months ago. Right now most people who want to go to electric cars cannot find any. It takes between six months and two years to get their hands on one. I was looking at som

Finance committee  Before I answer, I just want to give a bit of context. I did a quick bit of math on the number of tourists who visit Canada by car and the amount of GHG that this represents. Roughly three quarters of GHG emissions caused by the tourism industry come from transport. In 2019, this

Finance committee  Canada is doing much more than other countries. It's been almost 20 years since I started talking to people in the federal government about transportation electrification. For many years, not much happened. But things have picked up in the last two years. Minister Champagne is m

Finance committee  Good afternoon. Thank you for welcoming me today. Electric Mobility Canada is a national industry association dedicated exclusively to the advancement of electric mobility as a means to combat climate change and air pollution while supporting the Canadian economy. Electric Mob

Environment committee  They don't know what they're talking about. I'm sorry to say this, but there were two studies published, one by ICCT and another one by NRCan, that stated that between now and 2025 we need about 52,000 public chargers and about 200,000—

Environment committee  It's across the country: Keep in mind that 80% to 90% of charging happens at home. That's why we don't need that many public chargers. I drive an electric car on a daily basis. I've been driving it for more than 20 years. By 2030, according to the report released by NRCan, we

Environment committee  Or from people from Electric Mobility Canada, who have...? I have more than 20 years' experience in this.

Environment committee  I'm sorry. I could hardly hear you. Could you repeat that, please?

Environment committee  I would say that we need to make sure that we not only extract the resources but transform the resources here as well. In the past, Canada was very good at extracting resources, whether it was wood or oil or anything else. The crude products would be sent outside the country. T

Environment committee  Obviously, it's going to have an impact, but for some reason, the U.S. administration decided that for vehicles to be eligible, a certain percentage of the cars have to be built in North America now. What that means is that many vehicles are not eligible right now, which is not t

Environment committee  —we need four million public chargers between now and 2050—

Environment committee  Okay. I'll make it very quick. We don't need four million public chargers. That data is wrong. There was public research published by NRCan a few days ago. It's much less than that. Regarding the Inflation Reduction Act, what I wanted to say is that when you look at rebates for

Environment committee  What happened is that people from Atlantic Canada had to go to Ontario, Quebec or B.C. to get their hands on one, and therefore they could not be eligible for the rebate from their province.

Environment committee  Oh, I'm sorry.

Environment committee  It's 10 seconds. Okay. Well, sit everybody at the same table and get them out of the room only once the thing is done.