Two recent cases have highlighted a serious weakness in the governance of the electricity sector in Ontario. The cases illustrate not just the immediate adverse effects of Government interference in specific matters but the deeper damage the Government’s role does to governance of the sector as a whole.[…]
Alberta was the first Canadian jurisdiction to implement a restructured electrical power market. Structuring the electricity sector for competition led to policy determinations and reforms that unbundled generation and retailing functions and turned them over to competitive markets[…]
Washington State, that is. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission has rejected the proposed acquisition of Avista (formerly Washington Water Power) by Hydro One, the government-controlled utility serving in Ontario, Canada. The Commission’s December 2018 Order emphasized two problems[…]
On November 30, 2018, after 14 months of heated negotiations, representatives of the United States, Mexico and Canada signed the NAFTA 2.0, known as the “United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement” (USMCA), or as referred to officially by the Government of Canada, the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)[…]
2018 was in many ways a landmark year in the Supreme Court of Canada’s Administrative Law jurisprudence. At a time marking the transition from the McLachlin to the Wagner Court, fissures continued to widen among the members of the Court with respect to not only the methodology for selection of the standard of review to be applied in judicial review of administrative decision-making but also the modalities by which predominant reasonableness review is conducted[…]
In late July, 2018 Equinor Canada Ltd. (formerly Statoil Canada Ltd.) and the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a framework agreement for the potential development of the Bay du Nord oil discovery located approximately 270 nautical miles (500 kilometres) offshore[…]
