Karim Kassam Vice-President, Business and Corporate Development, Ballard Power Systems Inc.
Thank you very much.
I’m here today to speak to you from an industry perspective. I apologize that I didn’t have notes for you in advance, but I just landed from a three-week trip abroad, and I’m a little disoriented from jet lag. Hopefully you’ll indulge me over the next five to ten minutes.
The clerk asked that I perhaps give you a bit of background on Ballard Power Systems. Ballard is a fuel cell technology company based in Vancouver, Canada. We’ve been in this business for approximately 25 years. Our business is essentially the development of intellectual property, the sale of products and services, and the licensing of some of our technologies to our customers and partners.
To give you a sense of our revenue streams and where they come from, in 2013 Canada made up approximately 10% of our revenue. From a trade perspective, then, 90% of everything we do happens outside of this country, so anything that happens with regard to removing trade barriers to increase competitive forces for us is a very positive move and endeavour, given our reliance on trade for our business.
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