RE:The FOG actIt is my opinion that this legislation has Constitutional legs. Historically. the legislation of electricity - rates etc - has been a provincial responsibility not Federal.
The one hook that the Federal Government has under the Constutional lies in the area of interprovincial and international trade. In the case of Alberta, a very rough calculation, shows that interprovincial trade of electricity is under 5% of the total electricity produced which IMO is such a small number that it would hard for the Federal Government to claim Constitutional jurisdiction.
The Federal Government laws in this area are a clear overreach from a Constitutional perspective in the case of Alberta and probably most others. Curiously, one province where the interprovincial and international trade are fairly significant is Quebec since that province has 15 interprovincial and international grid connections. Would be real interesting from a political perspective if Quebec enacted a law based on the proposed Alberta law to see what Trudeau would do.