Registry of Lobbyists
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Advocating for funding for the Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial as Ontario recently cancelled the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account Fund.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Recognize that the transition to zero-emissions transportation, including battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric transit, coach and rail systems, will require an energy “systems overhaul of entire fleets and infrastructural systems, meaning that incentives and funding programs designed and launched by Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Environment, Climate Change Canada and/or Transport Canada will need to support coordinated energy systems integration efforts (i.e. both vehicle and fuelling ends of the equation) with consortia of partners to be effective, immediate and long-term from an economic sustainability standpoint. 1) Recognize that fleet adoption – specifically heavy duty vehicle fleet adoption in the public sector, including bus, coach and rail systems – offers more immediate and substantial emissions reductions opportunities for taxpayers compared to individual passenger car incentives over the next four year period.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.
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Climate, Environment, Research and Development, Transportation
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Secure funding for a Return to Transit research and innovation program which supports the research on the safe return of ridership to transit as well as supports low carbon smart mobility focused projects.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Secure funding for the ACES Big Data Trust and ZEB Simulation Rollout projects through FedDev Ontario, ISED or other relevant ministry respectively.
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Research and Development, Transportation
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Secure funding to support a national smart vehicle demonstration and integration trial which supports the long-term deployment of autonomous shuttles in Markham, Ontario.
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Research and Development, Transportation
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Support a Return to Transit project that aims to secure funding for Research & Development into getting transit riders back on transit safely.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Support CUTRIC’s application to ensure the federal government invests $10M in start-up seed financing for the development of a cutting edge (and publicly-controlled) ACES Big Data Trust (“Autonomous, Connected, Electric & Shared” Big Data Trust), which would ensure standardized data collection, aggregation, sharing and use for optimized decision-making for fleet procurements of electric, hydrogen electric, and autonomous, i.e. “smart”, transportation fleets across Canada. The ACES Big Data Trust will help to reduce taxpayer losses due to inefficient and unempirical procurement decision-making across Canada’s public fleets, by ensuring public fleet procurement bodies and agencies have access to the real-time, accurate, precise and immediately accessible performance data they need to hold manufacturers to account and assess performance of vehicles procured once in fleet. The ACES Big Data Trust will optimize the use of tax dollars invested in public fleets across the heavy-duty sector of vehicles, including buses, rail, coaches and municipal heavy-duty service vehicles.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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Support CUTRIC’s development of a Joint Procurement Initiative that improves transit by moving people more efficiently across Canada using the most cutting edge zero-emissions technology projects available worldwide. CUTRIC’s Joint Procurement Initiative will support the launch of zero emission buses CUTRIC across Canada, with a focus on the GTHA.
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Climate, Environment, Transportation
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The Government of Canada must launch the development of a robust Canadian Transportation Innovation & Industrial Development Strategy. The Strategy would require a “hub” marriage between Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC), Innovation, Science and Industry and Environment Canada, and Transport Canada on the transportation innovation file. The Strategy should be launched with a federal Task Force with the support of Members of Parliament, mobility manufacturers, integrators, fleets/transit systems, and alternative fuel providers to generate programming aimed at future low-carbon smart mobility infrastructure integration, innovation and technological advancement in transportation.
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International Trade, Transportation
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To present the Foreign Affairs, Commerce & Trade (FACT) Task Force, a multi-stakeholder working group established by the Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC). Its purpose is to support Canada's transit manufacturing sector in navigating international trade challenges, particularly in light of recently imposed U.S. tariffs and anticipated Canadian countermeasures. The Task Force serves as a forum for manufacturers, suppliers, transit agencies, labour representatives, and academic experts to share insights, assess risks, and collaboratively develop policy recommendations. Its objective is to mitigate negative impacts on Canadian jobs, production capacity, and public mobility outcomes. The FACT Task Force advocates for tariff exemptions on transit-related goods and services, and for policy supports that protect domestic supply chains and sustain Canada's zero-emission transit goals.
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Climate, Economic Development, Environment, Transportation
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Within Canadian Transportation Innovation & Industrial Development Strategy, Canada needs to identify a clear mandate for Alternative Propulsion & Smart Mobility Innovation focusing on mechanisms that create IP and new jobs in the low-carbon transportation innovation industry, building globally relevant large scale integration trials and industry-academic collaborations through innovation consortia for alternative propulsion and smart vehicle technologies in shared mobility systems applications (e.g. public transit and shared private fleets). This Strategy must include battery electric propulsion and charging systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), hydrogen fuel cell electric propulsion systems and fuelling systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), renewable natural gas propulsion and fuelling systems (heavy-duty and light-duty; vehicular and rail-based), and automated and connected vehicle systems for public fleet systems applied to heavy- and light-duty vehicles, including bus, coach, and rail.
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End date of the last completed financial year: 2026-03-31
| Government Institution | Funding Received in Last Financial Year | Funding Expected in Current Financial Year |
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| Housing, Infrastructure and Communities Canada (HICC) | $1,582,883.83 | Yes |
| Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) | $221,371.96 | Yes |
Address:
18 King Street East Suite 1400
Toronto, ON M5C 1C4
Canada
Telephone number:
905-906-4020
Josipa Petrunic, Executive Director & CEO
Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) / Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en transport urbain au Canada (CRITUC) is not a subsidiary of any other parent companies.
Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) / Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en transport urbain au Canada (CRITUC) is not a coalition.
The activities of Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) / Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en transport urbain au Canada (CRITUC) are not controlled or directed by another individual, organization or corporation with a direct interest in the outcome of this undertaking.
Canadian Urban Transit Research & Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC) / Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en transport urbain au Canada (CRITUC) does not have any subsidiaries that could have a direct interest in the outcome of the undertaking
Anshul Tipnis | Public offices held
Firm: Crestview Strategy