That's a great question.
Pretty much every private proponent wants a simplified regulatory process. For my report, I interviewed several power producers to talk about how easy it was for them to track investment. The general sense was that it is much easier in the United States.
When we're all competing for the same components, supply chain and labour force, it's very important that we're competitive in Canada, because we know that they will snake up as much as they can in the south to take advantage of the data centre boom. Having at least a coherent and simple regulatory process helps make us less uncompetitive.
It's ensuring that what is provincial stays provincial. General electricity tends to be under provincial jurisdiction. There are, of course, some elements like nuclear, interprovincial transmission and some things to do with fisheries that the federal government has to get involved in. Working collaboratively with the provinces to ensure that they're coordinated and that it's fairly seamless from the private proponents' perspective is important.
There has been very good progress in that regard with the co-operation agreements. I hope that the proposed reforms that they go through will further streamline the processes you discussed.
