[Technical difficulty—Editor] the rest of Canada doesn't face, and we're experiencing climate change impacts like nowhere else in Canada. In the last two weeks, five communities flooded and to an extent we've never seen before. I'm on flood watch right now in a community where the water is going to be over the banks pretty soon.
With changing water levels, temperature change, melting permafrost, shore erosion and forest fires, we have it all, and the sad reality is that we have very little greenhouse gas emissions. It's something that concerns us and we want to see every avenue taken to try to change it.
The announcement of the $2.6 billion for home retrofit grants was very good to see. I think a lot of people in our communities are happy with it. There is a large indigenous population here and we have challenges with housing, so this is going to go a long way.
However, we have other issues: our costs are higher, we have isolation concerns and our construction seasons don't match those in the south. I'm hoping the minister will be able to let us know whether a solution will be tailored to the north so we can be included as part of this. That's my first question.
The second question is about the energy advisers. These positions are going to require people with a high level of education and degrees in the field already, before they're even considered as advisers. We have a small population. We don't have many experts in this field. I'm hoping this portion of the announcement will allow us to tailor the training program so we can have people from the north doing the job of energy adviser.
Those are the two questions I have for the minister.