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Of all countries that should welcome global warming, Canada takes the cake. Think this. You are on fixed income which is eroded by inflation every year and your heating bills go from $250/month Dec-March to $750-1,000..with the average Canadian making $2,500 or so monthly in retirement...That's a big chunk of change.
As many as a fifth of Canadians face “energy poverty” due to high costs, says the Canadian Journal of Public Health. “Depending on the measure, six to 19 percent of Canadian households face energy poverty,” said a peer-reviewed study led by a McGill professor: “In Canada home heating during the winter months is a matter of life and death.”