Environment committee  I will, Madam Chair.

Environment committee  Sure. How can GHG emissions reductions in the building sector be accelerated prior to the next scheduled update to the national model building codes? Property managers and building operators have market-based incentives to operate their buildings efficiently, which means energy

Environment committee  I'll just drive that home a little further. In a recent renovation of the kind you've done in this building here, the BAS, or the building automation system, that would have been installed would be incredibly complex. Typically what happens when we commission the building and tu

Environment committee  Both climate and carbon footprint of predominant energy sources vary among provinces, territories, and latitudes in Canada. How can federal policy and program investments be regionally targeted to yield the greatest return in emissions reductions? Cleaning the grid is obviously

Environment committee  I'll just add one thing from the residential side, though. As increasingly more housing stock is going back to rentals, especially in our major cities where the cost of housing is becoming so high, a lot of our landlords are very sophisticated. Because utilities are often includ

Environment committee  Many owners of existing building stock take advantage of incentives to do the retrofits themselves. Often you will engage a third party consultant to come in and design that incentive and to in fact act as your liaison with the authority offering the incentive. If we bolted on

Environment committee  Right, and even in preventative maintenance.

Environment committee  Right.

Environment committee  As we were discussing, yesterday I attended the NRCan workshop at the EY Centre out by the airport. One of the things that was a common theme was the many new technologies that are on the cusp: air-source heat pumps, advances to ground-source heat pumps, and a lot of condensation

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Can I add one quick comment?

Environment committee  Many of the members that take advantage of the accreditation system, the program, use it as a training tool as well. It's a web-based system that lets you come back regularly and update it. As you achieve your results, you can update it, and it improves your score. It's a trainin

Environment committee  Sure. Start with the feds first or we'll run out of time, unfortunately.

Environment committee  You're out of time.

Environment committee  I think it's important to note that the reason commercial real estate is a little different is that in Canada a lot of it is driven by pension fund ownership at this point. Many of the investment firms demand sustainability. Their investors want and demand it. They actually compe