Low-interest finance can ease pocket-book pressure from high energy costs

The new Canada Greener Homes Affordability Programprovides much-needed assistance to low-income households, but its $800-million budget allocation won’t go very far toward the one million homes target.
Mark Carney
The Carney government can take the prime minister’s capital investments-focused approach to help retrofit one million homes by providing low-interest capital for energy efficiency and electrification upgrades, write Jana Elbrecht and Brendan Haley.

“Canada’s new government is focused on what we can control.” That was how Prime Minister Mark Carney opened his announcement of Canada’s electricity strategy back in May.

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