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Carney pledges C$2B to retrofit 1 million Canadian homes

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney pledged C$2 billion to retrofit one million homes for energy efficiency, a programme expected to save Canadians C$1 billion a year in energy costs. The plan includes subsidies of up to C$10,000 for heat pumps.

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This is a demand-side energy story before it is a crypto or RWA one, but it carries the sector's signature: a government underwriting a distributed, household-level asset base. The retrofit subsidy, and the heat-pump incentive in particular, points to a familiar financing gap — upfront capital against slow, spread-out returns — which is precisely the terrain tokenized or pooled capital structures have tried to occupy. Whether any of that C$2B reaches households through conventional grant channels or through newer financing rails is the open question worth watching.

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