A utilities company is not a free enterprise service provider. Its shareholders are the public. Under our law a public utility is controlled by government and must do as it is told. Canada is not the US, and we do not have to be controlled by utilities and other companies like Americans are. If executives in charge of public utilities wish to keep their jobs and pensions they are required, like all other employees, to do what they are told. They do not make the rules.
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A utilities company is not a free enterprise service provider. Its shareholders are the public. Under our law a public utility is controlled by government and must do as it is told. Canada is not the US, and we do not have to be controlled by utilities and other companies like Americans are. If executives in charge of public utilities wish to keep their jobs and pensions they are required, like all other employees, to do what they are told. They do not make the rules.
Not necessarily. A public utility can also be privately owned. Still controlled by the government though. BC Hydro is also a private corporation not a government agency.
It isn't private. It is a crown corporation which makes it owned by the citizens of the province.
NOpe. It is a limited company that the government owns all the shares. Big difference legally. This was done to help prevent political interference in the operations. Same as BC Ferries.
Semantics! If the govt owns all the shares and legally the govt is the citizens then it is owned by the people of the province.