PHGY 502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Dofasco, North American Free Trade Agreement, Walkerton, Ontario
29 Jun 2018
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Week 7 – Canadian Water Politics Friday, February 23rd, 2018
Short-Paper: (submit in hard-copy and e-mail)
-Thoughtful review of the readings – what have you learned about the topic
-Describe some, what kind of methodologies informs the reading
-What are the implications of the reading for the topic of governance and how you come up with
rules for the organization of public services
-Some critical reflection
Presentation – Part 1
-Framework to understanding water and water users and the conflicts the derive from this and the
political economy of water as a resource
-A lot of negative interdependencies because it’s a common pool resource
-Hard to manage given its nature
-Three Types of Users;
a. Consumptive Users
b. Withdrawal Users
c. In-Stream Users
Chapter 1 – Institutions, Instruments and Property Rights
-Federal institutions – three levels of institutional management and they are not very well
coordinated
-Federal Level constitutional powers for each level of government (S. 108, 91) and jurisdiction
over international treaties and aboriginal treaty waters
-Provincial Level (S. 109 = provs. Own all of the natural resources in their territory and 92)
-A lot of inter-jurisdictional conflicts which emerge – gap across the provinces based on the
policies put into place
Instruments/Implementation Options
1. Constitutional Provinces
2. Statues/Statutory Laws
-Regulatory Instruments – lengthy, expensive, don’t encourage technological innovation =
permits, licences and bi-laws
-Financial Instruments – provide incentives for producers and consumers to alternate their
behaviour in terms of environmental costs (rewards for pro-environment moves by
businesses/homeowners)
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Week 7 – Canadian Water Politics Friday, February 23rd, 2018
-Voluntary/Non-Regulatory – govs. offer incentives and people can utilize these; mixing public
and private economies
** Provinces as innovators
Property Rights:
-Canadian tradition of common law as incompatible with the way we view law and our
management of water
-Tort Law (Pp. 116) owners can use property own so long as it does not harm others – you can use
it in so far as your not damaging the water source for other and this is where the government
intrudes on private property because people can create negative externalities – thus gov. allow to
infringe on these right to uphold this
Government Regimes:
-Private property
-State property
-Community property
-Res Nullius
-Running/floing water cannot be owned use within “reasonable limits”
Chapter 5 – Case Study in Alberta
-Heavily dependant on agriculture – does not have as much water and can experience droughts
-Over all failure of province to find a balance between the multiple uses of water has led to this
depletion
-First in time, first in right= whoever got there first had rights to the resources which leads to
contemporary issues
-Irrigation districts relatively powerful – do not charge members for the use of water and do not
have limits on intake
-Pp. 151 – old man river damn = fight between province and the federal gov. vs. local indigenous
populations
Reflects the conflicting interests where the lack of complex policies arise
-Lacks capacity and political will for water management
Against the Flow: Institutions and Water-Export Debate:
-Bulk water-exports of water vs. water bottling
-Water Bottling = does not actually reflect much of a usage
-Bulk-Water= seen as an environmental disaster waiting to happen but we can runout and seen as
a trade issue with NAFTA and how it could lead to lack of sovereignty
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Document Summary
Thoughtful review of the readings what have you learned about the topic. Describe some, what kind of methodologies informs the reading. What are the implications of the reading for the topic of governance and how you come up with rules for the organization of public services. Framework to understanding water and water users and the conflicts the derive from this and the political economy of water as a resource. A lot of negative interdependencies because it"s a common pool resource. Three types of users: consumptive users, withdrawal users c. Chapter 1 institutions, instruments and property rights. Federal institutions three levels of institutional management and they are not very well coordinated. Federal level constitutional powers for each level of government (s. 108, 91) and jurisdiction over international treaties and aboriginal treaty waters. Own all of the natural resources in their territory and 92) A lot of inter-jurisdictional conflicts which emerge gap across the provinces based on the policies put into place.
