The progress many Canadians have made in reducing our MAIL carbon footprint by upgrading the energy efficiency of our homes is PO Box 1372 Saskatoon SK S7K 3N9 now under the threat of stalling. [...] The cancellation of the current program will also mean that the infrastructure the Government of OFFICE Canada has helped build through the employment of thousands of 220 20th Street West Saskatoon energy auditors and contractors across the country will be gutted as these skilled tradespeople leave for other employment opportunities.2 It is also critical that Canada continues its greenhouse gas em. [...] The Pembina Institute estimates that Canada needs to retrofit 600,000 existing residential homes each year (or 11.4 million homes retrofitted by 2040) to help reach 2050 net-zero targets.3 And so far, Canada’s primary policy instruments for accelerating the uptake of residential retrofits have been the Canada Greener Homes Grant and the Greener Homes Loan programs. [...] This means that homeowners can’t take advantage of the Greener Homes Grant program to upgrade and will most often not move to a more efficient (i.e., higher capital cost) system. [...] The main Greener Homes Grant could then be limited to deeper retrofits on homes and could be tied to improvements in insulation and air sealing of buildings, and other improvements that are normally planned, instead of on systems being replaced on an urgent basis.
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