Since the publication of our last issue of ERQ, there has been no shortage of matters relating to energy regulation, economics and the interplay between law and policy that are at the focus of this publication. We are monitoring various […]

As we enter the Summer of 2025, the hurried pace of change continues, driven by geopolitical events and Canadians’ high expectations for the newly elected Carney government. The Prime Minister hosted a First Ministers’ Meeting on June 2 in Saskatoon,[1] […]

A changing of the guard is occurring at Energy Regulation Quarterly (ERQ). This issue is the last with Rowland Harrison at the editorial helm. Rowland has steered the ERQ since its inception in 2013, in partnership with Gordon Kaiser until […]

EDITORS’ NOTE It has been the practice since the launch of Energy Regulation Quarterly in 2013 to focus the Editorial in the first issue of each year on developments in Canadian energy regulation during the preceding calendar year. The incoming […]

Controversy about the scope of the federal government’s role in the environmental assessment of major projects, particularly resource and energy development projects, reached fever pitch with the introduction in 2018 of Bill C-69 for the Impact Assessment Act (IAA), labelled […]

Sadly, the first item in this issue of Energy Regulation Quarterly (ERQ) is an In Memoriam remembering Gordon E. Kaiser, the Managing Editor who was instrumental in the founding of ERQ more than 10 years ago, who died on May […]