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Quebec has one they shut it down, hydro Quebec is a hydro power company not a nuclear power company

No. I imagine they are less sensitive and generally stay online and are only de-energized if the utility has an outage

They taxes vacancies so vacancies went down - but that doesn’t mean that someone who was happy keeping their property empty put it on the market and found some random tenants with all of the hassles that entails - you can never get rid of them as the laws strongly favour tenants. So you lose control of your “property”

Instead they find someone in their network, like a friend or friends adult child that is studying who can stay there and they pay a trivial rent to “take care of the house”

Prices in the condo market have fallen.

Some buyers that bought pre sale say at 700k maybe put down 120k and now the units are worth 600k and can only get a mortgage for 600k, have to come up with the extra 100k.

Lots of the supply is tiny condos that are not as desirable as a house for having a family.

the clamp down on Airbnb has also hurt the market for these tiny condos.

Also canada reduced the rate of immigration so demand isn’t increasing as quickly. The population of British Columbia decreased.

A hotel in Vancouver for a night in the summer is $400+

Patents expire

Patents are difficult to enforce internationally

Where would coke be if the recipe was patented instead of trade secret ?

Hydro electric as a resource is probably mostly exploited - are there a lot of big hydro projects left to build? If there are they must be difficult or expensive or they would have already been built.

Do you have a source for this? I constantly point out that several cloudy days in a row often happens but am rebutted with graphs of the declining costs of solar modules and batteries

Seems crazy to build an expensive factory and then cheap out on the power source so it can only run when it is sunny out

They certainly turned away from socialism and towards capitalism though, I think as part of embracing capitalism. What parts of the economy are not capitalist? State owned companies? In Canada and the US there are many protected or subsidized companies as well. Genuinely curious on the differences on owning a company in China vs canada

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10 year warranty on appliances instead of 1 would show the manufacturer was serious about quality !

Night time? But batteries! Several cloudy days in a row? More batteries! Cost? -> a mix of sources becomes attractive

Power generation is largely automated !

A partly cloudy or partly sunny day produces some insane changes in output without a battery system to smooth them out

There is a limit to the size of the instantaneous increases and decreases in generation that the other generators on the grid can compensate for

It is a tax efficient way to return profits to share holders