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HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, HEALTHY CANADIANS, HEALTHY ECONOMY: STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999 Report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Deborah Schulte Chair JUNE 2017 42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER'S PERMISSION Reproduction of the proceedings of the House of Commo [...] CEPA declares "that the protection of the environment is essential to the well-being of Canadians and that the primary purpose of this Act is to contribute to sustainable development through pollution prevention."1 Significantly, the focus of the Act is on pollution prevention from both a human and an environmental perspective with the Act implicating both the Minister of Environment and Climate C [...] The Committee reviewed the administration of the original CEPA in 1995 and made 141 recommendations,8 which led to the enactment of the current version of CEPA in 1999. [...] Recommendation 7 The Committee recommends that section 9 of CEPA be amended to strengthen the criteria for the establishment of administrative agreements and enhance monitoring and reporting of the performance of entities that enter into such agreements with the Minister. [...] Moffet of Environment and Climate Change Canada testified that the department has been implementing the "equivalent in effect" test for the past 15 years; however, the related wording in CEPA is ambiguous and could be clarified through an amendment.63 Industrial stakeholders, such as the Canadian Fuels Association, were generally supportive both of the use of equivalency agreements and of the gove.