Michael Sabia appointed to Carney's cabinet

Following Michael Sabia's nomination at the head of the Privy Council Office by Prime Minister Mark Carney, some clean energy analysts express (cautious) optimism upon seeing a "clean energy CEO" (in Clean Energy Canada's President Mark Zacharias's words) becoming the most powerful official in the government.

In an email exchange with The Energy Mix for their piece on the matter, Normand Mousseau welcomes this appointment as rather "good news", since according to him it makes it "much more likely" that a decarbonization agenda will be "defended and pushed forward. Probably very rapidly, too" given that it seems "Sabia has a sense of urgency" much appropriate to the climate crisis we are in.

However, Sabia's departure from the helm of Hydro-Québec "will leave a major gap for Hydro-Québec and its capacity to move forward at the same speed." Good news for Canada, but not so good news for Québec then.