EC238 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Navigation Protection Act, Environmental Policy, New Economics Foundation
Document Summary
Environmental policy and institutions in canada: an overview. Introduction: must more difficult in practice to achieve social efficiency than economic model suggests, economic efficiency is only one possible objective of environmental policy, other motivations equity, regional diversity, political factors, general points about canadian environmental policy. Overlapping powers: the regulation of specific environmental problems in canada tends to be done at both the federal level and provincial levels, e. g. provincial water-pollution regulations overlap with federal fisheries regulations. If each province enacts its own legislation, this raises the compliance costs for polluters that deal with myriad regulations. Environmental regulation in a parliamentary system: overview, environmental policy is greatly affected by its political system. In canada, because environment canada designs the legislation without conditions imposed by another political body, it is much less likely to propose a law that binds it to specific timetables, procedures, and so on.
