This letter to Ms. St.-Onge, Director General of the National Programs Directorate was submitted by Mark S. Winfield, Ph.D., Director of the Pembina Institutes Environmental Governance Program in response to a letter from Ms. St.-Onge regarding the proposed Environmental Emergency Regulations unders s.200 of CEPA.
The Pembina Institute strongly supports the Department's efforts to operationalize these provisions of CEPA, a step which, as we have indicated in our previous correspondence with the Minister of the Environment on this matter, is long overdue. We have the following comments on the proposed drafting instructions for the regulations.
