Health committee  Yes, absolutely, especially for medical users, but for everyone we would strongly support that. There are some health concerns in terms of children getting at it but, hopefully, that would be a limited problem and could be addressed in a careful way. To avoid second-hand smoke wo

Health committee  The only way they would not do that would be if the provinces added violations of those terms or that behaviour as a ground for termination under, for example in Ontario, the Residential Tenancies Act. Again, Ontario might do that because they look like they want to drive everyth

Health committee  And it would also be contingent—in some of the other provinces, in the Atlantic provinces or the west—on how the boards reacted to this. It's certainly the case law that for mere trivial breaches of the lease, the landlord cannot terminate. So if the view is taken that, oh well,

Health committee  That is a question that would vary by the province. Let me rephrase that slightly. Across Canada, landlords on first renting could impose a ban on cultivating and/or smoking. However, enforcing that ban would be relatively easy in the Atlantic provinces and in the west from Manit

Health committee  Thank you, Mr. Casey. I appreciate being invited to speak here, and I'm glad to do so. As the president, I'm really the executive director of CFAA. I'm also their housing policy analyst and their government relations specialist. Our association represents the owners and manager

Natural Resources committee  With respect to the tax treatment we're looking for, it's for high-efficiency boilers under certain conditions; not an open door, but to be included in class 43.2 to gain the 50% CCA rate, or it could be a new class.

Natural Resources committee  Exactly. This is a question of how quickly the owner can write off the cost. The point is the upfront cost is higher, so if you can write it off faster, you achieve tax savings. The beauty of it is that because there are energy savings that increase the business's income, the tax

Natural Resources committee  There are some similar projects in social housing in Canada. However, there are very few of them in for-profit housing, simply because the economics do not work. They're not far off from working, but they do not work. From that point of view, as I explained, the competitive posit

Natural Resources committee  I don't know it as a percentage; I do know it's certainly not trivial. With this proposal, which is a limited proposal, we used the metrics put forward by the Toronto atmospheric fund, which assisted in getting the coalition going. According to that, the savings would be 85,000 t

Natural Resources committee  Oh, I surely wasn't prepared for that question at this committee.

Natural Resources committee  I don't believe that a national housing strategy is needed in order to do useful things for housing.

Natural Resources committee  I don't have an opinion on whether or not it would help.

Natural Resources committee  When the heat is provided by electricity, the electricity, including the heat, can be submetered. That's not a problem. What I'm addressing here is the notion that the landlord has a central boiler—usually a boiler, which is usually natural gas-fired, but it could be oil—and then

Natural Resources committee  Yes.

Natural Resources committee  Very few of them fall within those renewable categories. Our desire was to expand that class by a modest amount, including these high efficiency boilers, furnaces, or in fact, chillers. We were involved in discussions with the government, with the officials in Finance and others,