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Her Excellency the Governor General recommends to the House of
Commons the appropriation of public revenue under the circumstances,
in the manner and for the purposes set out in a measure entitled ``An Act
respecting the protection of wildlife species at risk in Canada''.
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The purposes of this enactment are to prevent Canadian indigenous
species, subspecies and distinct populations of wildlife from becoming
extirpated or extinct, to provide for the recovery of endangered or
threatened species, to encourage the management of other species to
prevent them from becoming at risk.
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This enactment establishes the Committee on the Status of
Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) as an independent body of
experts responsible for assessing and identifying species at risk. It
provides that COSEWIC's assessments are to be reported to the
Minister of the Environment and to the Canadian Endangered Species
Conservation Council and it authorizes the Governor in Council to
establish by regulation the official list of species at risk based on that
process.
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It requires that the best available knowledge be used to define long
and short-term objectives in a recovery strategy for endangered and
threatened species and it provides for action plans to identify specific
actions.
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It creates prohibitions to protect listed threatened and endangered
species and their critical habitat.
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It recognizes that compensation may be needed to ensure fairness
following the imposition of the critical habitat prohibitions.
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It creates a public registry to assist in making documents under the
Act more accessible to the public.
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It is consistent with Aboriginal and treaty rights and respects the
authority of other federal ministers and provincial governments.
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Clause 134: New.
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Clause 135: New.
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Clause 136: (1) and (2) The relevant portion of section
12 reads as follows:
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12. The Governor in Council may make regulations
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(a) prohibiting entry, generally or for any specified period or
purpose, of any person on lands under the administration of the
Minister or on any part of those lands;
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(i) prescribing measures for the conservation of wildlife
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(i) on public lands the administration of which has been assigned
to the Minister pursuant to subsection 4(1), or
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(ii) in any protected marine areas established pursuant to
subsection 4.1(1); and
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(j) respecting the establishment of facilities or the construction,
maintenance and operation of works for wildlife research,
conservation and interpretation
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(i) on public lands the administration of which has been assigned
to the Minister pursuant to subsection 4(1), or
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(ii) in any protected marine areas established pursuant to
subsection 4.1(1).
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Clause 137: The relevant portion of the definition
``environmental effect'' in subsection 2(1) reads as
follows:
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``environmental effect'' means, in respect of a project,
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(a) any change that the project may cause in the environment,
including any effect of any such change on health and
socio-economic conditions, on physical and cultural heritage, on
the current use of lands and resources for traditional purposes by
aboriginal persons, or on any structure, site or thing that is of
historical, archaeological, paleontological or architectural
significance, and
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Clause 138: New.
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Clause 139: New.
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Clause 140: The relevant portion of subsection 21(1)
reads as follows:
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(c) amending the definitions ``animal'' and ``plant''
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(iv) for the purposes of section 7, in order to protect species of
animals and plants in a province, other than those species that are
subject to the legislative authority of Parliament, at the request of
the minister who is responsible for the protection of wild animal
or plant species of the government of the province;
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Clause 141: New.
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