Transport committee  Yes, you talked about the new deal. What I think the CIB can do for building retrofits is very similar to what you saw in those postwar years with the role of public investments in creating new markets for, say, residential mortgages or rural electrification—essentially, public i

Transport committee  Thanks, everyone, for the invitation. I am the policy director for Efficiency Canada. We're a research and advocacy organization focused on creating an energy-efficient economy. We are based at Carleton University. I would like to start by inviting you to think about energy eff

Natural Resources committee  But the figures are net, so essentially we have counted costs, and the costs we counted were the costs of doing the efficiency programs or doing the upgrades. The second cost, which is a cost of GDP, is that utilities don't get to save as much energy, so there is less economic ac

Natural Resources committee  I think we've got that in there.

Natural Resources committee  I think the history of Ontario policy is complex. The one thing I would note is that energy efficiency can play a really valuable role in the electricity system as an alternative to power plants and transmission lines. In Ontario right now, even with some of the nuclear refurbi

Natural Resources committee  It's important that energy efficiency finance has an institutional home. A lot of the barriers in getting finance into energy efficiency could be overcome by thinking of it a bit differently. Bankers are used to asking for collateral when they advance loans. There's lots of money