Natural Resources committee  Yes.

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Natural Resources committee  No, because we didn't get a penny. I guess we're self-funded.

Natural Resources committee  No, because the vast majority of our members are private companies. If you—

Natural Resources committee  No country can be completely self-sufficient in manufacturing electric vehicles. Therefore, countries need to work together, and that's currently happening with the United States, Europe and other countries working to build a supply chain for electric vehicles. No, no country can

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for this excellent question. I have to say that I'm surprised we're talking so much about producing more energy, whether renewable or nuclear, but so little about energy efficiency and conservation, which we should be talking about more. Canada ranks first among G20 c

Natural Resources committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair. Good afternoon, we would like to thank the members of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources for taking the time to consider our thoughts regarding a fair and equitable Canadian energy transformation. My name is Daniel Breton, and I am president and CEO

Industry committee  I'll say two things. First, as a former environment minister, I think it's very important that we work in a thorough way regarding the environmental impact of mines, and that we make sure that this process goes faster than it's going right now. We haven't talked much about this

Industry committee  Absolutely. Presently, the Government of Quebec is looking into this. The European Union is looking into this right now to come up with advanced regulations and battery passports, so that we know where the batteries go during their life cycle. We can then recycle them. There's a

Industry committee  You're absolutely right. When we're talking about electric mobility, we have to look at the broad spectrum of mobility, because within Electric Mobility Canada we have members, actually, who build and sell e-bikes. It's e-bikes, it's cars, it's buses, it's trucks, it's boats, i

Industry committee  As I mentioned earlier, it is not just Canada. None of the western countries have been listening enough to what I and other specialists like Karim have been saying for decades regarding the transition towards electric mobility. This is not something new. It's just that countries

Industry committee  That's a good question. We all say that we find the process quite long and the time is pressing. Yes, I would say that we need to accelerate the process. While we're saying we want to reduce our climate change GHG emissions, we have to accelerate exploration in critical minerals

Industry committee  Yes. Right now, what we are seeing is that we have some companies making electric vehicles in Canada that have to get their batteries from China, because the processes to get the critical minerals and the cells have not yet been developed in Canada. When we talk to the CEOs of th

Industry committee  Well, like Karim said, we're talking five to seven or eight years to open a mine and to start having the minerals and getting them processed. Right now, 99% of the lithium that's being extracted from Canada goes to China to be transformed. This is not the way to go, we think. We

Industry committee  It would be devastating, because obviously electric vehicles need more microchips than gas vehicles do, so the more technology we put into cars, the more we need microchips. Relying on microchips that come from China, for instance, can be a real issue. I know some plants are goi