International Trade committee  That is an excellent question. I would say that, in one sense, it needed a completely different rethinking of the process, because we actually saw that before, when you had to schedule meetings with groups in Europe or even in the States, they would schedule them two or three mo

International Trade committee  Yes, one suggestion I would have is to tie some of the free trade elements of an agreement to certain commitments with climate targets. I think there is definitely a lot that can be done by committing that certain clauses or certain elements of that agreement only come into effec

International Trade committee  The business model will be licensing the technology, because concrete is a very localized product—

International Trade committee  I'm sorry. It is a very localized product. Cement will usually move thousands of miles, but concrete in particular only moves in a 100-mile to 200-mile radius. Our business model is to license the technology so that these companies can adopt this new way of making these lower

International Trade committee  We're currently actively selling into the western Canadian market, primarily in Calgary and the southern Alberta market. We are, however, at a very late stage in some licensing agreements with a couple of groups in the U.S., one in Europe and one in Asia.

International Trade committee  The trade commissioner service has been quite effective in helping us explore partnerships in different areas. I would say candidly that it has been a hit and miss in many areas. In some cases we found the trade commissioner service—for example, in Paris, France—to be extremely w

International Trade committee  I think the main framework is a four- to five-year game plan on engaging with industrial partners in other countries. I'd be happy to talk about that more off-line, but currently there's no precedent for this.

International Trade committee  I'll try to be succinct this time. I totally agree with you. I think there's a strong opportunity for some of the experience that Albertans and people across the Prairies, frankly, including B.C., have built around LNG infrastructure and oil and gas, both heavy and light. A lot

International Trade committee  I would have two recommendations. One would be that there has to be some sort of framework with specific countries in Asia. I think Indonesia, China and India will turn out to be probably the most important levers. There has to be some kind of arrangement where the adoption of ca

International Trade committee  Tangibly, I can share one story with you regarding the CanExport program from when we visited France and were looking at some partnerships there. That has been probably one of the more successful engagements we've had with a government program. During that trip back in 2015, if m

International Trade committee  Yes. In terms of specific recommendations, one recommendation I would have is actually road mapping a certain collaboration, either with the U.S. or the EU bloc specifically, to look at a time horizon of two to four years around adopting industrial retrofits or new industrial tec

International Trade committee  Thank you, Madison. As a nation of just under 40 million people, Canada has already done a fair bit in terms of investing in carbon utilization technologies and moving the needle to show how carbon can be reused to enable the circular economy that we think we need to be able to