Deep efficiency retrofits are the only lasting fix to energy affordability

There is a clear path forward for the federal government out of their carbon tax mess if it offers a new income-targeted retrofit program to all provinces and all fuel types.

Energy and Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson speaks to reporters in Ottawa on June 15. Tinkering with the carbon tax on certain fuels is a Band-Aid measure with a marginal impact on heating costs, write Graham Anderson and Dylan Heerema.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY GRAHAM ANDERSON, DYLAN HEEREMA

November 6, 2023

The recent announcement by the federal government to eliminate the carbon tax on heating oil and create a new heat pump program in Atlantic Canada has set off a political firestorm across the country. As an organization that has been working with rural and Indigenous commun...

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