Those unpopulated areas actually make the most sense for solar PV in Canada, they often either don't have electricity at all, or are using very expensive sources of electricity (like gas/diesel generators)

Here's the problem I'm having. For any of the places along the southern border of Canada, where electricity is cheap as fuck (fuck you Alberta and Saskatchewan), the payback costs on Solar PV (especially at the house scale) are essentially non-existent.

So for now, we should let other countries(along with Alberta and Saskatchewan) buy and install those panels and not have to compete with the rest of the country (which lowers the prices) for the currently limited supply of available panels.

We can install some in those other places in 20-30 years when the tech has gotten even cheaper and it finally does become viable financially.

It's not like BC, Ontario, and Quebec's electricity generation is particularly carbon intense, the are all under 10% fossil fuels already. It's almost all renewables or nuclear as it is.