International Trade committee  I'll give an example. We convened about 12 to 15 industries along the battery supply chain, from metals and minerals right through recycling at end of life. Our recommendations to government were several. First and foremost, they are doing good jobs in certain parts of the valu

International Trade committee  From our work at Clean Energy Canada, what we are finding is building industry alliances and building industry task forces and approaching government with solutions they can understand and adopt is the best way. We've done it with batteries. We've done it on Buy Clean and clean p

International Trade committee  That's a great question. There are a couple of things. One is the $3.8 billion that has been invested in critical minerals. That needs to move quickly. Two, getting projects through regulatory processes federally and provincially in Canada is exceedingly difficult. It takes a

International Trade committee  I would agree with the remarks of the two preceding speakers. I would note that the other alternative to pressuring the U.S. to amend the IRA would be to do things a little bit differently and move forward more quickly on the Canadian equivalents. I'll give you two or three exa

International Trade committee  It's a really good question. I would preface my remarks by saying that over the last couple of years, there have been 17 battery announcements in Canada, including some in cathode and anode production, and should those investments come to fruition, there would be about $15.2 bi

International Trade committee  Good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Mark Zacharias. I'm the executive director at Clean Energy Canada, a climate and clean energy think tank at Simon Fraser University. I'll be speaking today on how Canada can position itself to maintain high-qu