PC culture will always win <| sep |> It ' s a feature <| sep |> A province , or a country , can of course legislate whatever it wants . But it won ' t notice how we ' re still honoring those green energy contracts . The problem is that if you demonstrate that you are willing to not honor contracts that you entered into and in fact write legislation to destroy them investors will not enter into future contracts because the risk is so high . The only thing fundamentally securing an investment is contract law . If you demonstrate that you will not honor it there ' s nothing left . It ' s complete economic suicide for the provincecountry . That ' s distinct from actually taking the contract to court , like your second example .