Section 4: Conclusion
- This Paper seeks to contribute to the Parliamentary Review by providing background information on key issues.
- Environment Canada and Health Canada have prepared this Issues Paper based on their experience in implementing CEPA 1999 and on a series of consultations conducted with interested Canadians.
- The consultations indicated that CEPA is a fundamentally sound Act, and that the Reviews provide opportunities to make a good Act even better.
- The independent program evaluations commissioned by Environment Canada and Health Canada and the results of consultations in preparation for the Review indicate that considerable progress has been made during the last six years of implementing the Act. It was also recognized that further improvements could be made in implementing the full range of authorities currently provided by CEPA 1999.