Registration - In-house Organization

Subject Matters

• Economic Development
• Energy
• Environment
• Intellectual Property
• Research and Development
• Small Business
• Transportation

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• Housing
• Infrastructure

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 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.
• Secure funding for the ACES Big Data Trust and ZEB Simulation Rollout projects through FedDev Ontario, ISED or other relevant ministry respectively.
• Secure funding to support a national smart vehicle demonstration and integration trial which supports the long-term deployment of autonomous shuttles in Markham, Ontario.

Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program

• 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.
• 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.
• Support a Return to Transit project that aims to secure funding for Research & Development into getting transit riders back on transit safely.

Policies or Program

• 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), Infrastructure Canada (IC), 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.
• 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, 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.

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)
• Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario (FedDev)
• 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:
18 King Street East
Suite 1400
Toronto, ON  M5C 1C4
Canada

Telephone number: 647-981-4020