This year — 2023 — marks year two of Canada’s net\u002Dzero plan, which will remake virtually every aspect of our economy and society.
We’ve already seen the effect on average Canadians. Under the “waste” component of the 2030 emissions reduction plan, the government mandated single-use plastics out of existence for most people. The actual bans kicked in at the end of 2022, so if you’re still running on hoarded plastic ware, straws and coffee stirrers, you’ll want to make it last. And yet, an analysis of Canada’s net-zero plastics plan proves it’s a. By the government’s own admission, the bans address a virtual non-problem .
On the housing front, the government’s 2030 emissions reduction plan calls for emissions from homes and commercial buildings to fall 42% by 2030. This is . If you’d like some numbers, C.D. Howe economists estimate “total annual retrofit costs, just to households, would run from $4.5 billion to $6.3 billion.” That’s roughly the cost of building two or three modern hospitals per year.
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