The economic impacts of misalignment in the Canadian Electrical Code
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2022-04-26
Lack of alignment of the Canadian Electrical Code across Canadian provinces and territories can be a technical barrier to trade. Regulatory inconsistencies, such as in the misalignment of electrical codes across provinces and territories, are a type of interprovincial trade barrier that can add costs for organizations operating in more than one province. The Standards Council of Canada along with Canadian Standards Association, Electro-Federation of Canada, and members of SCC’s Provincial-Territorial Advisory Committee engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP to assess the potential economic impacts of harmonization in the Canadian Electrical Code, Part I, Safety Standard for Electrical Installations across Canadian jurisdictions. This assessment is also intended to facilitate an understanding by the SCC of the economic impacts, if any, experienced by various industries and stakeholders as a result of current misalignment of adoptions by the provinces and territories of the Canadian Electrical Code Part I.