ENV250Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Environmental Organization, Regulatory Capture, Compost
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Lecture 11. 2 notes cleaner, greener, healthier part ii. Industries themselves will want to monitor their emission to demonstrate that they are emitting less. It becomes in their interest to monitor their own compliance and argue that they are doing better and therefore should be taxed less. Overall: canada does not use taxes like other countries. In part, because of federalism the federal government may not have the jurisdiction to tax or constitutional right: even the carbon tax is kinda voluntary asking the provinces to implement it. Three big reasons: economic factors, political factors, legal factors, and a fourth reason cultural factors. Industry, particularly the natural resources sector, has a disproportionately large impact on canadian environmental law and policy (p. 202) Industry always finds a way to weaken laws and over-ride policies. Joined executive and legislative branch: once they get in, they can do whatever they want since they have the majority government, system of checks and balance is weaker.
