Regulatory Policy Division [ Policy and Regulatory Affairs Division ]

Regional Workshop on International Air Transport Regulatory Policy [ Regional Workshop on Air Transport Regulatory Policy | Workshop on Air Transport Regulatory Policy ]

regulatory policy [ better lawmaking | better law-making | better regulation | good regulatory practice | outcome-based regulation | performance-based regulation | REFIT | regulatory fitness | Regulatory Fitness and Performance Programme | regulatory governance | regulatory improvement | regulatory quality | regulatory reform | smart regulation ]

regulatory policy

Policy Division

Communications Policy Division

Economic Affairs and Trade Policy Division

Political Affairs Division V, Sector Policy Coordination

Political Affairs Division IV, Human Rights and Humanitarian Policy

Jason Flint, Director, Policy and Regulatory Affairs Division, Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Health Canada: Good afternoon, Mr. Chair, and honourable members of the committee.

Joining us for the next hour from the Pest Management Regulatory Agency of Health Canada is Scott Kirby, the director of the environmental assessment directorate; and Jason Flint, director, policy and regulatory affairs division, policy, communications, and regulatory affairs directorate.

The Regulatory Affairs Division provides SCC ministers with substantive briefings and advice with respect to the regulatory submissions to the Governor in Council, and monitors and coordinates implementation and monitoring of the regulatory policy.

- 2 - Main topics of research will be : 1. the Community's internal market programme raises many issues of microeconomic analysis, including industrial organisation and the economics of regulatory policies (e.g. standards) that deserve urgent attention; 2. European integration economics, including issues of intra- European regional North- South relations, raises a further set of issues not well covered by the research community; 3. the determinants of economic growth in Western Europe, including dynamic factors such as advanced technology and innovation, and constraints, such as environmental concerns; 4. so-called "systemic" issues i ...[+++]n the monetary areas and macroeconomic and fiscal policy coordination have received increasing academic attention in recent years, but rarely dealing adequately with their intra-European as compared to their international aspects; 5. problems of trade policy and the role of Western Europe in the international division of labour; 6. employment and social policy issues, which have quite different characteristics in Western Europe, compared to the United States or Japan; 7. methodological and modelling problems relevant to the above mentioned subjects or otherwise of fundamental interest.