Thank you, again, for the opportunity to address you.
I will speak to past experience communicated to us directly through our membership. In the past, there have been.... Current incentives have a lot of potential, but there were issues with individuals and associations that became a prerequisite, if I could call it this. These associations acted as gatekeepers to access federal and provincial grant incentives for building retrofits. This became problematic in one context. Without taking a one-week course that was delivered for profit by these associations, five-year apprentice trades that include the scope of practice were actually excluded from being able to offer these very same incentives to their clients. This was a very big problem.
I think what we would like to see is future incentives that address retrofits being performed by qualified people. Another layer to that is that these systems that were performed were shown—in the news, in various reports and newspapers—to be faulty in many instances. This causes a lack of trust from the government to go down this road of retrofitting with these new technologies. You know, we only get one opportunity to do it right.