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International Trade committee I think that, in the electromobility field—
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee Yes. Thank you very much for your question. We have the objective to be carbon-neutral by 2050. If you look at what the key contributors are to emissions today, the transportation sector, for example, represents close to 25% of emissions here in Canada, and in some countries, i
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee I think so, and then there also needs to be some clear.... We don't really have any domestic market for us today so it is all exports. I think seeing the development of a domestic market will help and this is done by really helping the deployment of zero-emission fuel cell vehicl
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee Absolutely. Any incentive that will force users or fleet operators, the big distribution centres, to switch to cleaner trucks is very important. They have some examples in California. There are examples in other parts of the world where incentives, as well as a measure of some re
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee Absolutely, I support that. Our supply chain is so integrated between the U.S. and Canada that we really need to support that exemption.
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee I'll use hydrogen as an example. At Ballard Power Systems, we're working on hydrogen fuel cells. I think that Canada's expertise in this area is really unique, even compared to the United States. We have American competitors. However, Canada has always been at the forefront of hy
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee Absolutely, this is something we are starting to look into. It's very early days. I think the ecosystem is still at its beginning. What I mean by ecosystem is the production of the hydrogen, which is necessary as a fuel. However, we have seen in the past year or 18 months a lot
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard
International Trade committee Thank you. Good morning. My name is Nicolas Pocard. I'm the vice-president of marketing for Ballard Power Systems. Ballard is a company based in British Columbia. For the past four years, we have been developing clean zero-emission hydrogen and fuel-cell solutions. As a techn
May 10th, 2021Committee meeting
Nicolas Pocard