David Bursey comments in Lexpert’s Special Edition—Canada’s Leading Energy Lawyers on provincial electricity system policies and regulations in Canada.

David says the provinces each have “a whole series of different social, economic and political experiments” that affect the current state and development of their electrical infrastructure. “We need predictability, certainty and a reasonable expectation of reaching decisions. It is really important for investment.” Without certainty and a more harmonious regulatory regime throughout Canada that makes it easier to get approvals for new facilities—from electrical power generation to transmission—“then you are doomed to the status quo.”