CSG Electric Planning on DIY Electrics – Is It Even Legal | Page 6

The effectiveness of these different reflections on the law is difficult to
gauge as far more electrical wiring, sockets and equipment is purchased
in DIY stores across Vancouver than the number of training courses
being undertaken. Similarly, in Ontario where minor electrical work is
permitted with a permit but no inspection the number of light switches
sold far exceeds the number of permits issued. Indeed in Ontario
because there are no inspections carried out on the minor electrical
work allowed by the permit the scheme is considered by homeowners
as pointless. Quebec’s very rigid stance of forbidding any DIY on
electrical wiring on the other hand could only have working if they had
managed to push through a law forbidding the sale of electrical wiring,
switches and other electrical infrastructure equipment to consumers