That has been a long-standing issue for many years. There is a concentration of effort on the retrofit side, which understandably has a lot of merit. What I take issue with is that we are constantly trying to bring our existing building stock up to a new level, whether it be an EnerGuide level of 80 or higher as we move forward.... However, rather than trying to always correct the mistakes of the past, we should be trying to change the way we make those mistakes and in fact improve on ways of trying to avoid those mistakes.
How can the government help? First of all, identify an existing program around a vision of net-zero energy. That is the ultimate in energy vision for how you're going to address the energy component in the home. That's a step forward in that regard.
Energy is and will remain one of the most important components of how this country is going to prosper in the future. Whether it's energy produced through conventional oil and gas or energy produced, I would suggest to you, at the residential level by an individual consumer or homeowner, all of it goes into the energy mix, strengthens our energy mix, makes us a better nation, creates more economic opportunity, and limits the environmental footprint overall. However, it does take a new program that would be identified through net-zero-energy home principles, designed toward the new construction sector.