[ENV250Y5] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (47 pages long!)
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Policy process how laws get made (just a guide, not always like this!: identify a problem gets on to the government agenda, they draft up a legislation, policy adoption given royal assent. Introduces into parliament: implemented bureaucracy, evaluated by anyone. Types of policy: voluntary actually asking someone, no punishment, economic ie. tax on gas, regulatory just creating a law, if you don"t do it = punishment. Environmental policy is made by bureaucracy doesn"t have to go through senate: provinces can make regulatory policy, when designing and implementing policy, govt" has a number of tools to choose from. Provinces can fix out the details: but if provinces don"t do that, the federal government will provide a backstop, saskatchewan is saying no, good illustration of federalism diff from harper govt, trudeau wants it to be implemented in november, most likely will get challenged by sk and go to the supreme court, if they go against govt" will probably tax them super high.
