Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. The grant provisions under the small and medium ecoENERGY program no longer exist. They were offered for four years, but your constituents can still go to our website and call our staff in order to get other services, such as benchmarking services, in

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. I got the first question and I'll answer that, but I didn't catch the beginning of your second question, so I'm sorry, I'll have to ask you to repeat that. On the first question, we can see from the take-up statistics—we track them weekly, daily, on this

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. I'll try to be brief, being aware of the time there. We track the number of pre-retrofit evaluations and the number of post-retrofit evaluations, which are in fact grant applications. We track the spending week by week. We track the spendin

Natural Resources committee  No, absolutely, your logic is sound. A government can certainly review a program while running the program. We do that on an ongoing basis. In this case the decision was made to limit intake at a time that would respect the existing budget we have available to us, which is $745 m

Natural Resources committee  Mr. Chair, I would like to be extremely clear. The program is not taking any new applicants. That is very clear. The program will continue to pay funds for the coming year to existing applicants. That is very clear.

Natural Resources committee  We work very closely with the provinces. We have many avenues of consultation and discussion with them. Once the decision was made, we let them know as quickly as possible.

Natural Resources committee  No.

Natural Resources committee  We talked to them before it was announced on the website.

Natural Resources committee  Provincial colleagues who deliver similar programs understand the requirements to manage within budgetary requirements. Certainly there was disappointment that it was not continuing, but there was also understanding, as many of our provincial programs have experienced the same u

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  My comment was that the eco-ENERGY retrofit home incentive program will be addressing 5% of the domestic stock, but that does not mean that's the only effort this government is taking to encourage retrofits in the existing housing stock. We have information, we have rating syste

Natural Resources committee  Yes, the Government of Canada has, as I'm sure you're aware, greenhouse gas emission targets for 2020 and 2050, and the actions we take on energy efficiency support those overall greenhouse gas emission reduction targets.

Natural Resources committee  No, the Government of Canada does not have a specific goal of that nature.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. The method of limiting intake that we selected was to stop accepting bookings for pre-retrofit evaluations. That provided fairness to consumers who might live in an area that doesn't have as many energy advisers and where they might have to wait long

Natural Resources committee  I don't have those numbers in my head. It's certainly high for an incentive program, but non-incentive programs would certainly have a higher degree of leverage.