Court and Tribunal Administration CTA340 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Canadian Transportation Agency

• School: Seneca College
• Department: Court and Tribunal Administration
• Course: Court and Tribunal Administration CTA340
• Professor: Lynn Fournier- Ruggles

Document Summary

Statutory body charged with responsibility to administer, fix, establish, control, or regulate an economic activity or market by regularized and established means in the public interest and in accordance with government policy. Regularized and established means regulatory agencies must set out specific rules of procedure and must follow those rules in working towards a decision - judiciary-like trappings. Characteristic that separates regulatory agencies from operating departments and crown corporations. Public interest latter two are able to make decisions that are more flexible and more secretive than of a regulatory agency. Directed to act in the public interest and committed to it. Ex; when making a decision, the agency must decide the interest of consumers (members of the public) and shareholders of the company. Economic activity or market traditional forms of regulation with some of the new forms of regulation in cultural, environmental, and social areas.