Bill C-5
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RECOMMENDATION |
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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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SUMMARY |
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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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