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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
We don't need to relitigate that program, but it wasn't necessarily as dumb as it seems at surface level. A simple reimbursement scheme would have been ripe for abuse and still required a lot of administration. Making it a tax credit might have simplified it a bit, but would have reduced uptake.
This way the province had better buying power than average consumers buying retail. There is no great way to do staffing, though it's too bad they couldn't figure it out better. The best alternative may have been shipping the items direct to homes without charge, but that opens a whole kettle of fish for many citizens - because let's be real, most people capable of doing it themselves had already converted most of their lightbulbs/thermostat.
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They could have shipped every resident some coupon amount that could be used at hardware stores to cover a certain number of bulbs, power strips, and whatever. Would have been way cheaper.