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About Your Home<\/h4>\n
Imagine heading to your local grocery store to buy food for the upcoming week and not being able to see the nutritional label on any item to compare products. There would be outrage. What are these producers hiding you would ask yourself. How do I know which one is the healthier choice for myself and my family?<\/p>\n
This is the same question we should be asking ourselves when we buy a home. We are in an era of information overload except for the real estate market. In this market, there is a significant information deficit. When house hunting (likely being the largest expense you will make in your lifetime), there is still little to no information about how your home operates.<\/p>\n
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Universal Home Energy Labelling<\/h4>\n
Enter stage left\u2026universal home energy labelling. The federal government as well as most of the provinces and territories recognized this when signing the Pan Canadian Framework on Clean Growth and Climate Change following on our collective commitment to the Paris Accord. The Framework recognizes energy labelling as a fundamental tool for energy literacy and a call to action. Within this document, there is reference that energy labelling could be coming into the market place as soon as 2019. This was a shout out to the Province of Ontario.<\/p>\n
The Government of Ontario recognized that transformational changes were required to meet its climate commitments, including those that will lead to changing current behaviour. The Province of Ontario\u2019s Climate Change Action Plan includes a provision whereby the Province will require and provide free energy audits for pre-sale homes through a Home Energy Rating & Disclosure (HER&D) program.<\/p>\n