Part 1 Without question, the top story over the last year has been the COVID-19 pandemic and its tremendous ongoing effects felt across Canada and the world. This time has had a significant impact on Canada’s energy industry and many of the changes and developments that took place in 2020 will continue to influence trends, business decisions and the future growth of Canada’s energy industry in 2021. As we look back at 2020, we have highlighted the Top 20 industry developments and decisions made throughout the year in four key areas: Judicial decisions, regulatory decisions, legislative and policy developments, and transactions and trends. In this article, we analyze the top five judicial decisions of the last year and how these decisions may affect your business in 2021. The top five judicial decisions of 2020 Our list of the top five judicial decisions starts with a busy Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) considering issues of federal and provincial jurisdiction as well as the scope of the peace, order and good government federal power. The SCC started 2020 with its January ruling on BC’s provincial jurisdiction to regulate heavy oil on an interprovincial pipeline, followed by the Saskatchewan, Ontario and Alberta […]
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