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According to Environment Canada, higher import figures in the past were due to differences in standards for pre-treatment of waste between Canada and the US. The government of Canada recently called for a strengthening of those standards for waste management in Canada, especially in Canadian landfills. So heeding their government, a working group under the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment developed a plan for the environmentally sound management of hazardous waste.
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In an attempt to reduce waste, Environment Canada is encouraging the use of electronic means to view this newsletter. You may request to receive an electronic version by email. If you presently receive a hard copy of this newsletter, and are able to access an electronic copy, please contact Benoit Lalonde at benoit.lalonde@ec.gc.ca to add your name, or any other person to which this newsletter would be usefull, to the e-mail list.
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Environment Canada & Natural Resources Canada are working together to create watershed profiles using a national framework that identifies almost 600 watersheds across Canada. The project, Know Your Watershed, is 1 of 16 projects (more info at the following URL http://map.ns.ec.gc.ca/reseau/en/ ) being funded by the Treasury Board's Government On-Line Initiative. The purpose of the Know Your Watershed project is threefold. It aims to: * Improve public awareness in Canada of watershed geography. * Engage Canadians in responsible decision making using a watershed approach. * Demonstrate the importance of linking both environmental and human variables in a single watershed information system.
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The Environment Canada officials surveyed ... voiced concerns about the cost of the legal services provided and the limited training that is made available to DLSU counsel. They want a more transparent cost-recovery process which links costs and invoices to individual lawyers(e.g. DLSU, regional counsel, FPS). Some officials also voiced concerns about the amount of time that lawyers spend talking to each other to ensure that a consistent Department of Justice perspective is provided or to attend non-client meetings.
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Canada's Department of the Environment, commonly known as Environment Canada, was founded in 1971. It was created to bring the different aspects of Canadian environmental policy, which had until then been split between several different departments, under the control of one main body. Environment Canada has primary, but not exclusive, control of implementing Canada's environmental policies (the Department of Fisheries and Oceans, for instance, still has control of fisheries protection).
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Advantage Canada(2), released on November 23, 2006 with the Government's Economic and Fiscal Update 2006, stated that "…protecting Canada's environment is central to the Advantage Canada plan and an important source of long-term economic strength for Canada." In particular:
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