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Finance committee No, it's an annual report, so this is the one most currently available. They have to provide it to the ministers within five months after the end of their fiscal year end. This is the 2017-18 one, and they have to make it public. They do make it public already, but it's not neces
May 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Finance committee Yes. I'd like to apologize for not being here earlier. I'm actually with the Department of Natural Resources, with the office of energy efficiency. The FCM is required to provide an annual report to the three ministers with whom they have an agreement, those being the Minister
May 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Finance committee It's a “may”, but the language in the current agreement with the new funding on energy efficiency has been strengthened to say “shall”. We would go forward with tabling.
May 27th, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Finance committee Sure. It's actually $300 million for the home retrofit portion, if I can call it that. It's called the community eco-efficiency acceleration. The details need to be worked out with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. They are an arm's-length organization, although there ar
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Finance committee Absolutely. The FCM does an annual report each year on their activities under the green municipal fund. Equally, they do a forward-looking report on what they intend to use as objectives under the current green municipal fund. Both of those are publicly available and tabled in Pa
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Finance committee Thank you. Actually, Bogdan's going to stay here with me, because there's an infrastructure component to this. My name is Joyce Henry. I'm the director general of the office of energy efficiency at Natural Resources Canada. I'm here to speak to you about the proposal contained
May 2nd, 2019Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee Sorry, I don't have a specific answer on that.
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee I'll certainly take that comment back to the National Research Council and to my provincial and territorial counterparts and the experts who feed into that. The building code was updated and released in 2015. The electric vehicle market is a very dynamic market right now, a real
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee It does, yes. The building code has a housing component to it, and it also covers commercial and institutional buildings.
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee I'd say two things. Building codes have obviously been advancing for several years now. My understanding is that there's a new code expected to come out this spring. There's also 2011 and 2015. The codes work on a five-year cycle. Under the pan-Canadian framework, what's being
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee I'm sure we do. I don't have those numbers off the top of my head, I'm afraid.
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee I just want to go back to your last question briefly. Were you asking for how much better buildings would have to be to reach net-zero energy?
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee Right, so it's in the range of 60%, I think. I'll verify that number, but currently under energy star, you can already build your home 20% better, and under R-2000, 50% better, so this is another significant step forward on that.
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee I will speak broadly, and then I'll turn it over to Frank, because R and D is really his specialty. In terms of building envelopes, heating and cooling, and windows, these are the key areas for us in this respect, because those can make major advances. Things like heat exchange p
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry
Environment committee What I would say is that in my office we've met several times with Passive House Canada. We're very supportive of their work, because they are advancing energy efficiency goals within houses. That's certainly one of the very high stringent standards that can be looked at. There a
December 12th, 2017Committee meeting
Joyce Henry