Exempt Home Heating from Taxes and Carbon Pricing and Improve Access to Home Retrofit Programs - Resolution No. 827

CLAUDIA CHENDER « » : I hereby give notice that on a future day I shall move the adoption of the following resolution:

Whereas Nova Scotia is experiencing a year of devastating extreme weather that is accelerated by climate change; and

Whereas programs aimed at supporting energy efficient retrofits such as heat pumps remain hard to access, especially for low-income Nova Scotians, and effective climate action must address the very real affordability concerns of regular people; and

Whereas thousands of Nova Scotians continue to struggle with dramatic increases in the cost of living, and all members of the Legislature ought to join the Nova Scotia NDP to call on the federal government to remove all tax on home heating, exempt all home heating from carbon pricing, improve access to home retrofit programs, and increase federal investments in those programs;

Therefore be it resolved that the House of Assembly directs the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development at the earliest possible opportunity to summon witnesses and provide an examination of the merits of exempting home heating from taxes and carbon pricing and improving access to home retrofit programs.

Speaker, I request waiver of notice and passage without debate.

THE SPEAKER « » : There has been a request for waiver.

Is it agreed?

I hear several Noes. The notice of motion is tabled.