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Government Operations committee Exactly.
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Government Operations committee Yes, absolutely. We obtained approximately $1.5 million in savings just from this one initiative of reducing the burden around these vehicle regulations. We found that we were able to get the information we needed without this additional burden.
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Government Operations committee Absolutely.
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Government Operations committee I do not have an opinion on the exact wording of the act.
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Government Operations committee The estimation of the administrative burden that we can reduce from existing regulations in order to balance any additional administrative burden from new regulations is an ongoing exercise. Our experience with the one-for-one rule is that it has encouraged us to focus very caref
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Government Operations committee Mr. Chair, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of Environment Canada about Bill C-21, the red tape reduction act. My name is Mike Beale. I'm the assistant deputy minister for environmental stewardship at Environment Canada. I'm here
December 2nd, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee Mr. Chairman, the minister did in New York announce her intention to issue a notice of intent to regulate in the area of HFCs. That is important, in a sense, because of the relationship between the two environmental issues of climate change, on the one hand, and ozone depletion o
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee I will answer in English, if I may. When I look at paragraph 1.19 of the commissioner's report, the commissioner states that “detailed regulatory proposals have been available internally for over a year”. She doesn't say regulations. “Regulatory proposals” is a broader concept
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee We've talked about the vehicle regulations. The magnitude of those emission reductions is really very significant. On the coal-fired electricity regulations, similarly, we were able to tailor them to the circumstances of the sector. In the area of coal-fired electricity, we wer
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee Yes, that is accurate.
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee Maybe I could just add a few words on the regulatory side. As part of the sector-by-sector regulatory approach, we have working groups established with respect to different sectors. I would say there's a significant involvement of provinces in that work. In addition, there's a
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale
Environment committee The minister recently announced the second phase of our light-duty vehicle regulations. The first phase, which is already in place, addresses vehicles up to the 2016-model year. We had previously published draft regulations for the next phase, which would go from 2017 and onwards
October 8th, 2014Committee meeting
Mike Beale