Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Budget
• Economic Development
• Energy
• Environment
• Research and Development
• Science and Technology
• Transportation

Subject Matter Details

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit

• Ontario’s recently cancelled Greenhouse Gas Reduction Account Fund has eliminated provincial sources of funding for the world-leading Pan-Canadian Hydrogen Fuel Cell Electric Bus Demonstration & Integration Trial.
• Secure federal government funding for low-carbon smart mobility projects.
• Secure funding for the Brampton Transit EBus Project through the Low Carbon Economy Fund for Ontario.

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program

• It is critical that “transportation innovation” as “shared mobility innovation” is integrated as part of ISED’s “innovation strategy” and that this be done through a re-launch of the federal ISED Supercluster Program, or a revised Strategic Innovation Fund: Stream IV, to specifically identify transportation and mobility innovation.

Policies or Program

• 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), Infrastructure Canada, ISED 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.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• 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.

Communication Techniques

• Written communication
• Oral communication

Government Institutions

• Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
• Finance Canada (FIN)
• Global Affairs Canada (GAC)
• House of Commons
• Infrastructure Canada (INFC)
• Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)
• Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• Transport Canada (TC)

Address:
1 Yonge St.
Suite 1801
Toronto, ON  M5E 1W7
Canada

Telephone number: 647-981-4020