Natural Resources committee  Thank you for the question. The Energy Efficiency Act currently covers about 40 products. These include all of the large major appliances in the home—fridge, stove, dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer—as well as many other products: light bulbs, motors, commercial refrigeratio

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Merci de votre question. The program with the largest budget is the ecoENERGY retrofit homes program, with $745 million.

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. The distribution of funds across the country is entirely demand-driven. The Canadian homeowners apply to the program from wherever they live, and that's how the grants are paid out. We don't carve out the grant by province; we hold it all in

Natural Resources committee  With respect to the energy efficiency programs, there are a number of methods of evaluation. One is the formal evaluation conducted by a third party. Five of these are under way at the moment, on equipment, transportation, buildings, houses, and industry programs. The results of

Natural Resources committee  Sure, evaluations do inform decisions, but other things inform decisions as well. With respect to the home retrofit program, we monitor the intake of that program very carefully. As director general, I review the statistics on the program every week, and I have done so since the

Natural Resources committee  Yes, there is a lot of evidence. Thank you very much for that question. It's an important one. There is a lot of evidence that the programs are stimulating the uptake of emerging technologies and encouraging the integration of efficient technologies and renewable and other emerg

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much for the question. We currently have five evaluations under way on the energy efficiency suite. They will be completed in the next couple of months. Those evaluations will assess the emission reductions of each program against the proposed emission reductions.

Natural Resources committee  All the data on program effectiveness will be used in the government's assessment of the programs. As indicated in the Speech from the Throne and in budget 2010, there will be a review of energy efficiency and clean energy programs. Part of the data collected and used in that ana

Public Accounts committee  Mr. Chair, I feel embarrassed; I don't know the exact number. What I do know is that it's mandatory in the office of energy efficiency for all officers at any level who manage or are involved in contribution agreements to have training on contribution agreements, and that this is

Public Accounts committee  I have no information.

Public Accounts committee  Peter Middleton, to my knowledge, worked for Bronson Consulting quite a few years ago. Then he formed his own consulting company, and that is the consulting company that was hired through the CEEA-T contribution agreement. We continue to work with Bronson Consulting. We have no

Public Accounts committee  Picking up on the question of the decision whether to pay the subcontractors directly, as Deputy Minister Fadden said, the entity with whom we had a legal agreement would not have been likely to want to stand back from that agreement; they wanted to continue to be the entity deli

Environment committee  You're clearly aware, given your reference to the 2008 money for renewable energy, that the government announced a series of energy programs, including renewable energy programs, which began in 2007. With respect to renewable power, there was a $1.48 billion investment in renewab

Environment committee  No, that's not quite true. The budget 2009 investment in the clean energy fund, while it does have significant support for carbon capture and storage, also supports eight other priority areas for clean energy, including renewable technologies. So there will be investments made.

Environment committee  They have not yet been made.