Mr. Speaker, it is an honour to rise to present a petition from petitioners concerned with the impact on the climate crisis of energy use in Canadian homes. Of all energy consumed in Canada, 17% is used for heating, cooling, lighting and powering our homes, which is warming the outdoors in the winter and cooling the outdoors in the summer because of the basic lack of energy efficiency infrastructure and the lack of work to create cheaper energy-efficient homes.
The petitioners call on the government to work with the provinces and territories to develop new national building codes to reduce the overall energy demand to 15% of what current structures use and to contribute to affordability for Canadians.