Program directory · Environment and Climate Change Canada

Compliance Promotion and Enforcement - Pollution

Department

Environment and Climate Change Canada

Program code

BGS05 (EC)

Core responsibility

Preventing and Managing Pollution

In Departmental Plans

2018-19 – 2025-26 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The objective of this Program is to minimize damage to the environment from pollution by actively promoting compliance with, and applying a risk-based approach to enforce environmental laws, regulations and other instruments administered by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Through a range of activities, including developing and disseminating information, training, and responding to enquiries, the Program engages individuals and organizations subject to the laws and regulations to promote awareness of, and compliance with legal requirements. Inspections and intelligence contribute to the detection and identification of non-compliance which is then addressed by an array of enforcement measures ranging from warnings, tickets, and administrative monetary penalties, to orders to comply, and directions. For more serious offences, prosecution may be sought following the results of investigations, which may involve referrals to the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. Compliance is secured to protect air, water and land from harmful substances, and offenders are held accountable for their wrong-doing.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2018-19. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.