I think if we want homeowners to take action to reduce energy use in their buildings, we have to look at.... We have 13 million homes in Canada. We have a goal at the council to target a million homes and 100,000 buildings and cut energy use in half in those buildings. Twenty-five percent of the buildings and fewer than 10% of homes would result in 50 megatons of reduced carbon emissions.
Clearly, homeowners would need to be incentivized to take those steps. Even if they know that the technology is readily available and understand how to reduce energy use in their buildings—just putting double-glazed windows in helps—I think an audit is important to figure out where the improvements can be made. But the challenge is for people to get to that stage and do the audit. I think the municipalities can play a role there, working with homeowners in their jurisdictions to achieve this. But the federal government also plays a role. To achieve our carbon goals, we would like to see more investment in a fund like the ecoENERGY program, engaging more Canadians to make improvements to their homes and enabling them to make those changes.