Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution

• Implement the Canadian Navigable Waters Act to introduce modern safeguards

Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation

• Climate change: Development of a national climate change policy framework, national greenhouse gas reduction targets and plans to implement both (enabled through legislation, regulation and policy); legislative proposals related to legal accountability for climate-related loss and damage.
• Implementation of minimum standards for marine protected areas, development of marine spatial planning and marine protected area networks.
• Introduction of measures to reduce impacts of shipping in marine protected areas.

Policies or Program

• Coastal green infrastructure: Policy measures related to implementation of coastal green infrastructure as a sea level rise response strategy; development of a co-management framework for the Salish Sea and sub-regions of the Salish Sea; development and legal implementation of regional and sub-regional green infrastructure strategies.
• Green budget: Make a consolidated annual set of recommendations to the federal government regarding strategic fiscal and budgetary opportunities to address the most pressing issues regarding environmental sustainability in Canada
• The federal government’s commitment to halt and reverse nature loss by 2030.

Policies or Program, Regulation

• Legal implementation of the Impact Assessment Act and Canadian Energy Regulator Act; enactment and amendment of regulations under those acts; development of policies and guidance respecting impact assessment and pipeline regulatory reviews.

Regulation

• Implementation of new Fisheries Act via regulation to restore lost protections and introduce modern safeguards.