NAFTA and the Future of Environmental Regulation
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Date
1994
Authors
Perkins, Patricia E. (Ellie)
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Publisher
Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta
Abstract
Description
While NAFTA contains more "green" language than any previous trade pact, the agreement is also unprecedented in the freedom it allows investors and the extent to which it curtails government policy flexibility - important areas of concern for the environment. Especially in Canada, where environmental policy is primarily a provincial responsibility, questions have arisen about the workability and constitutionality of federally-negotiated international agreements like NAFTA which may have broad impacts on the ability of provincial governments to regulate and set environmental policy. Without embarking on constitutional questions in detail, this paper briefly explores some of the environmental policy issues raised by NAFTA
Keywords
NAFTA, environmental regulation, trade, environment, ecology, environmental policy
Citation
“NAFTA and the future of environmental regulation.” Comment in Constitutional
Quarterly . Centre for Constitutional Studies, University of Alberta, Vol. 5, Nos. 3 & 4,
Spring/Summer, pp. 68-71.