International Trade committee  Yes, certainly. The role of Export Development Canada on this is key. Export Development Canada can and in many cases does provide two types of facilities. One is long-term debt, and the other one, which is more simple, is what they call a warehousing facility, which works like a

International Trade committee  To start, it has been excellent. If we go back to 2013, we have used the service of the Foreign Affairs' local group in Japan and that allowed us to export to Japan, then. There is an installation in the southern island of Fukuoka with Canadian solar modules. We have done work

International Trade committee  Thank you. We have to steer away from where the Chinese are the leaders. That means staying within North America and going into Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. The Caribbean is an area in which Canadian engineering companies are very strong. We have to rely on that.

International Trade committee  We have been selling into the Caribbean for 10 years. We have been able to sell from western Europe all the way to Japan in the last 10 years. Right now we have concentrated in the U.S. because it is an easy market for a private, small company; it's more affordable. Thinking ou

International Trade committee  Of course. No, we do not use Chinese solar cells. Chinese solar cells will have an anti-dumping and countervailing duty—if we include that. Canadian exports to the U.S. were never over 2% of total imports. The U.S. International Trade Commission, in its assessment during the sec

International Trade committee  It is still going. Right now we are paying 18%. That is still happening. That has not been resolved. We have an opportunity to resolve it now with the Biden administration.

International Trade committee  Yes, as I mentioned before, we have been paying millions of dollars a year, so solar modules are being taxed to be imported into the U.S. This is an extremely urgent matter that we need government to concentrate on. Thank you.

International Trade committee  Thank you. We have been paying a U.S. import duty since February 2018, so there's very concrete action to be taken for Canadian solar modules being exported to the U.S., which is to work with USTR to exclude Canada from such import duties, whether it is done in an amicable way r

International Trade committee  As I mentioned in my testimony, Heliene developed, together with SpaceX, the low-altitude satellite solar modules that are being launched into space with those satellites. We have another product that is a greenhouse-integrated PV. For example, there is a greenhouse near Niagara

International Trade committee  According to chapter 31 of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement, dispute resolution has to take place if there is no agreement between the Canadian government and American government on taking off the unlawful import duties. I understand that right now there are ongoing conversations

International Trade committee  Hello, my name is Martin Pochtaruk, and I am the president of Heliene. First of all, I would like to thank Terry Sheehan, the Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie, for his invitation to participate in today's meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade. Manufa

International Trade committee  Hello, my name is Martin Pochtaruk, and I am the president of Heliene. First of all, I would like to thank Terry Sheehan, the Member of Parliament for Sault Ste. Marie, for his invitation to participate in today's meeting of the Standing Committee on International Trade. Helien