It is somewhat complex, but a huge portion of the US Eastern Seaboard and Ontario are planning on Hydro Quebec to be able to snap their fingers and turn export capacity on as nuclear plants get retired.
Quebec can't even supply it's domestic demand in the winter they are a net importer during heating season. There is no amount of interties that you can build to overcome a lack of generation when all of your neighbours are also short of generation to supply.
Furthermore it's not like there are a huge number of opportunities to build more new hydro in Quebec or Labrador.
I don't know where all of these people are getting the idea that Hydro Quebec is some infinite source of clean, easy power but that's the way regulators in NY, Maine, Vermont, Mass, and Ontario are acting. These decisions will not only cost a lot of money, they will kill people in extreme weather periods. Absolutely predictable AND insane.
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