I love that you simply cannot imagine that houses without air conditioning could exist. In a thread about the weather in Canada, even.

Having no AC because it rarely gets hot is like having no roof on your house because it never rains. It's a silly risk to take, especially when heat pump systems cool and heat the house equally well and much more efficiently than furnaces or resistive heaters.

I live in a developed country where, I estimate, less than 1% of houses have AC.

35°C inside can totally happen in a house or an apartment without AC and window shutters.

Not sure about BC, buy here in Quebec, not everyone has AC. I mean, it's not that uncommon, but off the top of my head I'd head estimate that roughly a third of people have AC?

Of course, when a heat wave comes, everyone wants to buy one of those windows or floor units, but then they sell out at every store in a few days.

I don't have AC in our house, but we do ga e a basement that stays cool even in extreme heat. Not that fun living in a basement, but realistically the AC would only get used a few days a year in average.