Khilafat Jubilee   khalifa, Mirza Tahir Ahmad. I have been privileged to be called his brother. Founded in Qadian, India, members of the Ahmadiyya Movement have emigrated to 190 countries, where they have established new lives, built mosques and become respected members of society. The community

Protecting Canada's Immigration System Act  . I think of Beethoven Crasco who, when he first came here, was working two jobs to support his family and still found time to volunteer at our local hospital. I think of Tahir Nawaz who within a few years of coming here organized a large fundraiser for the Red Cross as he wanted

Natural Resources committee  -president, facilities and construction. Welcome to you. Then, by video conference from Vancouver, British Columbia, from Clean Current Power Systems Inc., we have Christopher Gora, president. Welcome to you, sir, by video conference. I apologize to all of the witnesses for the delay

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for your presentation, Mr. Dutton, from Devon Canada. We now go by video conference to Vancouver, British Columbia, to Clean Current Power Systems Incorporated and Christopher Gora, the president. Mr. Gora, please go ahead with your presentation for up

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the opportunity to provide input on this question. By way of a brief introduction to our company, Clean Current is a technology developer of river and tidal turbines that generate renewable electricity through water currents. We have been around since 2001, and I

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for your presentation, Mr. Gora, president of Clean Current Power Systems. We'll now go directly to questions and comments, starting with a seven-minute round. Mr. Anderson, you have up to seven minutes. Go ahead, please.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I'd like to thank our witnesses for being here today. We don't have a lot of time, but Mr. Gora, would you take a couple of minutes to identify what specific technologies you are working on? You mentioned various technologies. Could you quickly give us

Natural Resources committee  As I said, we developed turbines for the generation of electricity through water currents, so we currently have two product lines. One is for river currents, so it's a smaller turbine that will sit on the riverbed and generate electricity through the current. The second product l

Natural Resources committee  Okay. To switch direction, how do you see your innovations and the things you folks are doing influencing either international markets or international technology developments? You talked a little about how you're tied into the international level. I think Mr. Gora probably

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I'll be sharing my time with Mr. Nicholls. I thank our guests today. You're giving us a lot of food for thought. I'll start with you, Mr. Gora. You said you didn't mean to be critical, but...well, obviously the government is falling well short

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Gora, go ahead, please.

Natural Resources committee  I'll answer that question by saying that we're at a stage, in terms of tidal energy particularly, where we need to cross what is essentially a difficult gulf—namely, from a pre-commercial stage to maturing the industry as a real and viable generator of power, a real player in the

Natural Resources committee  I have seven minutes; okay. Thank you, Mr. Chair, and thank you to the witnesses. I have a question for Mr. Gora. How would you qualify the current state of funding of R and D and innovation in the Canadian energy sector, please?

Natural Resources committee  I can qualify it by our own experience, which is that it involves a very critical mix of R and D tax credits, because in our business with our long development timelines, we spend a lot of money on labour and on capital costs because we're building demonstrators, we're using test

Natural Resources committee  In terms of project funding, because this is going to be and still is relatively unproven technology, there is a certain discomfort among investors who have a range of options in front of them in terms of the energy projects they can invest in. One of the keys to creating a via