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View Mario Simard Profile
BQ (QC)
View Mario Simard Profile
2021-06-21 11:47
Okay.
So eight billion euros invested around the world to produce and transport hydrogen, with all that implies in the value chain.
I am wondering about regulation. Perhaps you could tell us about the regulations in Europe. Let's start with the famous hydrogen colour scheme: blue, grey and green. Do the projects you are investing in make that distinction between the different types of hydrogen?
View Bob Zimmer Profile
CPC (BC)
Right.
I'll just get in one more question for you, Dr. McKitrick.
Six to one doesn't seem very effective to me at this point. Like you said, maybe in the future it will be.
Being an economist, how do you make it effective? What needs to be done to make it effective, where we actually are seeing a dollar-for-dollar efficiency?
It's interesting on this side to hear all the complaints. I hear other members of the committee talk about incentivizing or subsidizing this when they decry subsidizing oil and gas. I would agree with them. I don't think we should be subsidizing oil and gas, but then, in some respects, we have to expect it on the other side of the coin.
Can you explain what can be done to make this an effective policy?
View Bryan May Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Bryan May Profile
2021-06-21 12:23
—but I think we can definitely have that conversation off-line.
If I could get back to my questions, that would be great.
My question is for Mr. McKitrick.
You talked a little bit about the idea of carbon leakage in one of your answers. I'm wondering, sir, if you could talk about that a little bit more. I'm concerned about the idea that we should be waiting to see what countries like China or the United States do before we set environmental policy. I'm wondering if that's what you're suggesting.
View Bryan May Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Bryan May Profile
2021-06-21 12:25
Sir, you also bring up the idea of regulations not contributing to advancements. I was a little bit surprised by that, given, frankly, what we've seen over the last five years, especially in industries like the auto industry where we've seen the complete transition in the auto industry moving toward electrification.
Could you maybe cite some research you were talking about that connects those two things and shows that regulations don't in fact contribute to the advancement of technology?
View Patrick Weiler Profile
Lib. (BC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to pick up on a point that my colleague was just mentioning. You mentioned earlier in your opening, Mr. Wolinetz, the potential for substantial abatement if we're using more grassy or woody products.
I think the previous member mentioned a key point in terms of what type of support or regulation it is going to take to incentivize or move us more in the direction of using those products that are now going to waste or otherwise.
View Patrick Weiler Profile
Lib. (BC)
Thanks for that.
My next question is for Mr. Plumptre.
You mentioned in your opening the importance of things like the clean fuel standard and other policies to ensure that we're not picking winners and that we're going to have a portfolio-based approach and have the certainty for investment going forward in some of these lower-carbon products in the future.
My question to you is this: What risk do you see to investment today in the technologies that we're going to need for this type of a low-carbon future when you see other parties perhaps putting out policies or suggesting policies that would be less ambitious or that would eliminate some of these different mechanisms that are proposed?
View Richard Cannings Profile
NDP (BC)
Thank you very much for that.
Turning to Mr. Plumptre, you mentioned that these clean fuel standards were more stringent in some places and that we needed regulations that were increasingly stringent. I'm wondering whether you could elaborate on where Canada needs to go with our clean fuel standards to achieve the best results.
View Jeremy Patzer Profile
CPC (SK)
The efficiency side of things is definitely good and benefits everybody, but on the government regulations, it states right in them that the avenues they are pursuing are going to disproportionally impact these people. To say that they're mutually exclusive is not necessarily the case. We know that GHG reduction is the point of a clean fuel standard and the point of the carbon tax, and it states clearly, right in it, that those people are going to be disproportionally impacted.
View Lloyd Longfield Profile
Lib. (ON)
View Lloyd Longfield Profile
2021-06-18 14:42
To continue in that argument, if we look at Japan going to zero-emission vehicles, the study we looked at in the environment committee as well, Europe going to zero-emission vehicles, we may be buying vehicles that are zero emission and the market might be ahead of us in terms of us delivering policy and programs.
View Tako Van Popta Profile
CPC (BC)
Thank you.
Two minutes is too short for this, but thank you to all three witnesses. Mr. Fogel from the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs, and Mr. Farooq and Ms. Omer from the National Council of Canadian Muslims, thanks for being with us and helping us through this very difficult conversation.
I'm going to ask a question that a couple of people attempted to ask and ran out of time, which is about balancing civil liberties and keeping Canadians safe, particularly when it comes to the Internet.
Mr. Fogel, I think it was you who said that we need new tools when it comes to regulating the Internet. I don't know if you were talking about criminal laws or civil remedies. Perhaps you could expand on that. What would civil remedies look like as far as that goes?
View Marilène Gill Profile
BQ (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to ask about something we were told at the last meeting. Despite what we're hearing now, witnesses were telling us about difficulties in applying policies and regulations because of the lack of resources. They were saying that it makes the work of the department difficult. These were people in the business.
Do you think that that is the case?
Just now, we were told two things at the same time. First, we were told that is not possible to get around the regulations and, second, we were told that people are concerned that some do succeed in getting around them. Then again, we are told that everything is overseen and everything is going well, while, at the last meeting, we were told there are a lot of difficulties with oversight and that resources are inadequate. In a word, a lot of things have gone by the board. For 40 years, blind eyes have been turned to things that are actually happening.
What is your opinion, Mr. Burns, Ms. McCready or Mr. Whorley?
View Serge Cormier Profile
Lib. (NB)
Mr. Burns, I understand what you're saying, but when it comes to companies like Royal Greenland, again, backed by the Danish government, are you aware of these companies that are coming to Canada and trying to have control over our fisheries? You stated earlier that it's important to have the licences stay in our communities. Yes, the licence is one thing, but if the resource goes everywhere but in our communities, and the prices go so low as compared with now, what will we do 10 years from now?
View Fayçal El-Khoury Profile
Lib. (QC)
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I thank our guests for joining us today and welcome them.
My first questions are for Mr. McCrorie.
How many times has the Canadian Transportation Agency ordered railway companies to make changes to their operations?
Why is the mediation process still [Technical difficulty—Editor]?
Finally, how much time is generally needed to find a solution?
View Dave Epp Profile
CPC (ON)
Thank you.
I'd like to get one more question in if I can to Mr. Gilvesy. What would be ALUS's position on cross-compliance between BRM programming and environmental initiatives?
View Kody Blois Profile
Lib. (NS)
View Kody Blois Profile
2021-06-08 16:00
Okay.
I want to get into verification. When I have conversations with stakeholders across the country, that becomes a big piece. Obviously, your company is in that space. I presume there are others who might also be in that realm in the private sector.
Do you see it as government's role to play a helping hand with farmers, or is this something that the private sector can take a leading role in, in terms of the verification of farmers' meeting some of these protocols, to take advantage of these opportunities?
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