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Jason Kenney hinted Wednesday that a United Conservative government would shut down Energy Efficiency Alberta, an arm’s-length provincial agency founded in 2016 that operates programs funded by the carbon tax.

“We don’t need bureaucrats changing our shower heads and our light bulbs,” Kenney said at a news conference.

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He said programs under the agency would be “gone.”

But when reporters asked whether the UCP would eliminate the agency entirely, Kenney said to wait for the party’s full election platform.

The UCP has promised to repeal the carbon tax if elected.

Energy Efficiency Alberta, which was part of the NDP’s climate leadership plan, has rolled out initiatives including free LED light bulbs and low-flow shower heads, subsidies for insulation, windows and water heaters and an online rebate program for thermostats and appliances.

Alberta was the last North American jurisdiction without an energy efficiency program before the NDP government created Energy Efficiency Alberta, government spokesman Matt Dykstra said in an email Wednesday.