This goes back to the ability to ensure that Canadian households can take advantage of the cost savings from clean energy technologies. This will help drive manufacturing. This will help drive jobs in installation. This will build Canadian know-how and experience in this. This will also be a resource that can be increasingly leveraged by utilities to reduce costs elsewhere in the system.
From the federal government's perspective, it's about making sure that it is supporting electrified technologies. We should be looking at electric heat pumps as much as possible or, at a minimum, hybrid. That's going to be absolutely essential for many regions. That's going to be an opportunity.
The ability for the federal government to help ensure households can get over the upfront costs of the technologies involved so that they can take advantage of the cost savings of operating these systems is going to be absolutely vital.
