Natural Resources committee  There's a very recent interesting report on SMR technology in the United States. They've invested vast amounts of money over more than 50 years. The conclusion this research team came to was that there really is little future for the technologies they've been pursuing. There are

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. If you look at all the hydroelectric projects under way in Canada now or in recent years, they're all at a marginal cost far above the economic value of that generation. That includes Quebec, by the way. The Romaine project is a huge money loser. If looked at from a m

Natural Resources committee  Absolutely. You've said it more articulately than I could, but I soundly agree.

Natural Resources committee  Constitutionally speaking, Canada's 10 provinces are really their own separate jurisdictions. We have 10 different stories about electricity across the country. The electricity situation of P.E.I. is as remote from the electricity situation of Alberta or B.C., or even its neighbo

Natural Resources committee  Yes. Thank you for the opportunity. The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador is constructing a hydroelectric facility that has no storage capacity on the Lower Churchill at Muskrat Falls near Happy Valley-Goose Bay. The associated transmission links that Newfoundland is const

Natural Resources committee  They are tariff-free. We don't have tax measures or rate measures that interfere with these interconnections. What we have, primarily, is policy measures. For example, the 1995 federal review of interprovincial trade had a chapter on energy. It was left blank. This is an illustra

Natural Resources committee  Please do.

Natural Resources committee  Historically, electricity has been a guarded fiefdom of the provinces. Where there have been opportunities for interties, we have exploited some and not others. One example is the long, decades-old conversation around further Atlantic Canadian electricity integration. Following

Natural Resources committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and members of the committee. Federal electricity policy must be grounded in Canada's Constitution. Electricity is provincial jurisdiction, not federal. Historically, electricity policy oversteps of the federal government beyond its constitutional author