ECON 2J03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: New Economics Foundation, Our Common Future, Environmental Security
11 Apr 2017
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Chapter 15: environmental policy and institutions in canada. It is often more difficult to achieve social efficiency than we assume when building models. Part of this may be because there are other motivations for the policy, including equity, regional diversity, and political factors. Jurisdiction over the environment is not always well defined and can come under the federal and/or provincial governments control. Section 91 of the constitution act (1887) establishes federal powers over: ocean and inland fisheries, navigation and shipping, federal lands and waters. Each of these powers has been used by the federal government to enact legislation that has some element of pollution control: eg. Fisheries act, navigable waters protection act, artic waters pollution prevention act. The key to understanding canadian environmental policy is to recognize that most regulatory powers applicable to the environment lie with the provincial government.
