I tried to get a quote on a heat pump here (Ontario, Canada) last week because the gov't has incentives up to $5000 on them right now. My gas furnace doesn't ne

I tried to get a quote on a heat pump here (Ontario, Canada) last week because the gov't has incentives up to $5000 on them right now. My gas furnace doesn't need replacing (9 years old) but the AC does. So I figured I'd ask them to quote on a hybrid configuration in a way where the furnace could maybe be swapped out later when it hit EOL, and in the meantime just be used for very cold temps. Problems: Gov't incentive only applies to a full replacement, existing gas furnace would have to be ripped out. Seemed wasteful. High pressure sales guy wouldn't give me a straight answer on pricing, or even proper spec sheets, but sounded easily like $25,000 CAD would be about the price for a system. And that was on a "medium range" system. That's gotta be at least 2 times more than a new gas furnace + AC. Maybe 3x. I'm on a rural property, and have the space to do excavation for ground source heatpump, which I suspect would get me an even more efficient system. Sales guy was clueless about them, but it also seems like nobody around here really does them.. still? (My parents have such a system in Alberta, for over 10 years) Also kind of suspect that gov't incentives just get turned into price increases by the suppliers. Unfortunately just very frustrating. I'd love to do the right thing here, but it seems at this point that pricing still favours natural gas heating. At least for renovations/replacements? Guess I'll wait for the furnace to die.