Thanks, Mr. Chair.
Good evening, witnesses. Thanks for coming.
I'd just like to pick up on points you made during your presentations.
Mr. Ribaux, with regard to your comments on the federal program on energy efficiency in our commercial buildings, which is called in English
the commercial building incentive program, this program has been running for 10 years and has helped 541 projects aimed at improving the energy efficiency of new commercial, institutional, and multi-unit residential buildings--not an unimportant project for the country with 541 projects participating. On average, the buildings that participated became 35% more energy-efficient than they otherwise would have been.
I'm sure the FCM is aware of this as well. It would have been something that would be made known to privately owned buildings in cities like Winnipeg, for example.
Can you help us understand why the Government of Canada would kill this type of program? We're talking about energy efficiency tools here, and we're talking about this partnership in Canadian society to reduce greenhouse gases.