"The proposed legislation would allow the Carney cabinet to make regulations to modify federal regulatory requirements for all projects determined to be in the country’s national interest.
He said national interest projects will include “pipelines that make sense,” clean energy grids, trade corridors, nuclear facilities, critical minerals and carbon-capture facilities"
SMRs should take less than 10 years and the one about to be built will be ready well before that in theory. The problem is they’re so new here that even if it works and everything goes according to plan, it’s probably a couple decades before it’s even begun to scale.