00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.852623 CaOODSP 20221107154628 cr ||||||||||| 180228s1992 quc |o f000 0 eng d CaOODSP eng n-cn--- En107-3/14-1992E-PDF Glenn, John Edward. Decision-making regimes governing environmental assessment in Canada [electronic resource] / John Edward Glenn. [Hull, Quebec] : Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council, 1992. 39 p. Cover title. "August 1992." "A manuscript report prepared for the Canadian Environmental Assessment Research Council." Digitized edition from print [produced by Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency]. Includes bibliographic references. "Environmental assessment in Canada has traditionally operated according to the informal model of executive power. According to this model, executive officials are granted considerable discretion to apply broadly-phrased assessment legislation. In a series of recent cases concerning federal environmental assessment activities under the Environmental Assessment Review Process Guidelines Order, however, Canadian courts went some way towards imposing a much more rigid and legalistic model of decision-making upon federal officials. Due to the Canadian executive’s ability to forestall activist jurisprudence or overcome such activism as does occur, however, the traditional model of environmental assessment decision-making, based on the prudential exercise of executive discretion, will probably continue to inform environmental decision-making well into the foreseeable future"--Abstract, p. 4. gccst Environmental impact assessment Canada. Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency. PDF 313 KB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/acee-ceaa/En107-3-14-1992-eng.pdf