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Responsive Regulation In Context, Circa 2011, Cristie Ford, Natasha Affolder
Responsive Regulation In Context, Circa 2011, Cristie Ford, Natasha Affolder
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In the fall of 2010, the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law welcomed a group of scholars from around the world to consider the state and evolution of responsive regulation, in both theory and practice. The occasion was the presence of Dr. John Braithwaite, the faculty's inaugural Fasken Martineau Senior Visiting Scholar.' Given that we are on the cusp of the twentieth anniversary of Ian Ayres and John Braithwaite's seminal book, Responsive Regulation: Transcending the Deregulation Debate,' it is appropriate that this issue begins with John Braithwaite's own reflections on the responsive regulation project. On one level, the set …
What Ever Happened To Canadian Environmental Law?, Stepan Wood, Georgia Tanner, Benjamin J. Richardson
What Ever Happened To Canadian Environmental Law?, Stepan Wood, Georgia Tanner, Benjamin J. Richardson
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This Article examines the history of Canadian environmental law in order to explain why it has become a laggard in both legal reform and environmental performance. Canadian environmental law has long been of interest to scholars worldwide, yet its record is often poorly understood. The Article contrasts recent developments with the seemingly progressive initiatives of the 1970s, and analyzes these trends in light of their political, economic and governance context, as well as the wider critiques of environmental law. It argues that there is considerable room for Canadian governments to adopt more robust methods of environmental law, including following pioneering …
Why Study Large Projects? Environmental Regulation’S Neglected Frontier, Natasha Affolder
Why Study Large Projects? Environmental Regulation’S Neglected Frontier, Natasha Affolder
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Large-scale natural resource and infrastructure projects create some of the most challenging and high-stakes contexts for environmental regulation. Witness the heated debates surrounding the Keystone XL pipeline project. But to date, large projects have attracted relatively little sustained interest from scholars of environmental law and regulation. Case studies stand alone as valuable empirical accounts of individual pipelines, dams, and mining projects. But synthesis of these case studies is lacking. A workshop that celebrates the approaching 20th year anniversary of Ian Ayres’ and John Braithwaite’s 1992 book, Responsive Regulation, provides an opportune moment to reflect on this lacuna in environmental regulatory …
Tax Expenditures To Limit The Growth Of Carbon Emissions In Canada: Identification And Evaluation, David G. Duff, E. Ian Wiebe
Tax Expenditures To Limit The Growth Of Carbon Emissions In Canada: Identification And Evaluation, David G. Duff, E. Ian Wiebe
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Unlike the U.S., which relies heavily on tax expenditures as instruments of energy and climate change policy, Canada has introduced very few such tax expenditures, relying instead on voluntary initiatives, direct subsidies, and limited regulatory measures to limit carbon emissions. This paper identifies and evaluates the most prominent tax expenditures in Canada to limit the growth of carbon emissions. As background to this inquiry, Part II reviews Canadian experience with carbon emissions over the last two decades and the limited government response to this growing problem. Part III identifies the most prominent tax expenditures that Canadian governments have introduced in …