POL250Y5 Lecture 20: JPE 250 (Lecture 20.2)
Document Summary
Canadas north and far north: policy and politics. Trudeau government poised to overhaul environmental assessment process on energy projects like pipelines. Going to over haul the navigable act and fisheries at. Liberal move to protect more fish by overhauling harper-era reforms in response to a lot of the longstanding problems. Still has to make it through the house and senate before being promulgated and turned into an actual act and then has to be enforced and constantly legitimized. * intergovernmental forum (voting members are the government) promoting cooperation, coordination and interaction among arctic states, arctic indigenous communities and arctic inhabitants on common arctic issues. *it was created in 1996 in ottawa, there was the ottawa declaration that declared this organization into being and subsequent in baphen islan in 1998 provided more structure to this organization. * particular focus on sustainable development and environmental protection in the arctic. * higher level how arctic council is organized.
