Public Domain

I started work on my research paper for Regulatory Economics today! I spent some time this afternoon tracking down regulatory documents regarding electrical transmission in Alberta. Turns out that most of them are available as pdfs and I download a ton. The glitch comes when I want a copy of the updates made to Bill 50, the Electric Statutes Amendment Act of 2009. This is a piece of legislation by the provincial government and the only way to read what it says is to pay $5.00 and have it mailed. Maybe it's just me, but I think that citizens should be able to read legislation for free. Even if there's only one of us who actually cares about the updates to the Electric Statutes Amendment Act of 2009.