Feds should take credit for some of their actual energy achievements

If three million visitors a year are expected to tour Parliament Hill, the federal government has a responsibility to tell Canadians where our tax money is being spent and the positive environmental impact we taxpayers are funding.

The Centre Block, pictured Nov. 26, 2025. Centre Block's new underground Visitors Centre and the excavation allowed 92 vertical boreholes to be drilled for a geoexchange system that will use 23 kilometres of loop to produce thermal conditioning for the 93,000 square-metre facility, writes Bill Eggertson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY BILL EGGERTSON

July 23, 2026

Governments champion the production of low-carbon renewable energy, and they often provide a range of incentives for the output of clean energy from both individual and corporate facilities. In 2023, Canada generate...

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