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Charter Statement Bill S-3: An Act amending the Weights and Measures Act, the Electricity and Gas Inspection Act, the Weights and Measures Regulations and the Electricity and Gas Inspection Regulations

Section 4.2 of the Department of Justice Act requires the Minister of Justice to prepare a Charter Statement for every government bill to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on government bills. One of the Minister of Justice’s most important responsibilities is to examine legislation for inconsistency with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms [“the Charter”]. By tabling a Charter Statement, the Minister is sharing some of the key considerations that informed the review of a bill for inconsistency with the Charter. A Statement identifies Charter rights and freedoms that may potentially be engaged by a bill and provides a brief explanation of the nature of any engagement, in light of the measures being proposed.

A Charter Statement also identifies potential justifications for any limits a bill may impose on Charter rights and freedoms. Section 1 of the Charter provides that rights and freedoms may be subject to reasonable limits if those limits are prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. This means that Parliament may enact laws that limit Charter rights and freedoms. The Charter will be violated only where a limit is not demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society.

A Charter Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public and Parliament on a bill’s potential effects on rights and freedoms that are neither trivial nor too speculative. It is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of all conceivable Charter considerations. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of a bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study and amendment of a bill. A Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a bill.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Charter Statement Bill C-14: An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and the National Defence Act (bail and sentencing)

Section 4.2 of the Department of Justice Act requires the Minister of Justice to prepare a Charter Statement for every government bill to help inform public and Parliamentary debate on government bills. One of the Minister of Justice’s most important responsibilities is to examine legislation for inconsistency with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms [“the Charter”]. By tabling a Charter Statement, the Minister is sharing some of the key considerations that informed the review of a bill for inconsistency with the Charter. A Statement identifies Charter rights and freedoms that may potentially be engaged by a bill and provides a brief explanation of the nature of any engagement, in light of the measures being proposed.

A Charter Statement also identifies potential justifications for any limits a bill may impose on Charter rights and freedoms. Section 1 of the Charter provides that rights and freedoms may be subject to reasonable limits if those limits are prescribed by law and demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society. This means that Parliament may enact laws that limit Charter rights and freedoms. The Charter will be violated only where a limit is not demonstrably justifiable in a free and democratic society.

A Charter Statement is intended to provide legal information to the public and Parliament on a bill’s potential effects on rights and freedoms that are neither trivial nor too speculative. It is not intended to be a comprehensive overview of all conceivable Charter considerations. Additional considerations relevant to the constitutionality of a bill may also arise in the course of Parliamentary study and amendment of a bill. A Statement is not a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a bill.

Organization: Department of Justice Canada | Ministère de la Justice Canada
Book publishers, summary statistics

<p>The summary statistics by North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) which include: operating revenue (dollars x 1,000,000), operating expenses (dollars x 1,000,000), salaries wages and benefits (dollars x 1,000,000), and operating profit margin (by percent), of book publishers  (NAICS 511130), annual, for five years of data.<br></p>

Organization: Statistics Canada | Statistique Canada
Air quality

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Air quality indicators track ambient concentrations of fine particulate matter, ground-level ozone, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, and volatile organic compounds at the national and regional levels as well as at local monitoring stations. The national and regional indicators are presented with their corresponding Canadian Ambient Air Quality Standard when available. Canadians are exposed to air pollutants on a daily basis, and this exposure can cause adverse health and environmental effects. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.

Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
The Nova Scotia Protected Areas System

These lands help preserve Nova Scotia’s natural values through a blend of legislation, ownership and management. Included here are: National Parks, National Wildlife Areas, Provincial Wilderness Areas, Provincial Nature Reserves, selected Provincial Parks and selected land trust properties and easements. This combination of federal, provincial and private lands contributes to both provincial and national land conservation and biodiversity goals.

Organization: Government of Nova Scotia | Gouvernment de la Nouvelle-Écosse
Till Grain Size

This layer contains point features that represent New Brunswick Geological Survey till sample locations where laboratory grain size analysis was completed. Grain size data are contained in the attribute data for each location.
Grain size analysis is limited to the dry-sieved <2 mm fraction of collected till samples. This fraction of the till sediment is subjected to hydrometer grain size analysis to determine the percentages of sand, silt, and clay. The process is based on the hydrometer method of Bouyoucous 1962.

Sand: 63 µm to 2 mm
Silt: 2µm to 63 µm
Clay: < 2 µm

Bouyoucous, G.H. (1962) Hydrometer Method Improved for Making Particle Size Analysis of Soils. Agronomy Journal, 54, 464-465

Organization: Government of New Brunswick | Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick
Till Sample Sites

This layer contains point features that represent till sampling locations collected by the New Brunswick Geological Survey between 2014 and present. Sampled areas and sample density are dependent on the goals of the project and historical sampling. At each location, observations and measurements about the forest soil profile and terrain surface were recorded, and a soil sample was collected for geochemical, lithological, and grain size analysis. Observational data are included in this layer, but analytical results are not included in this layer.

Organization: Government of New Brunswick | Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick
Bedrock

This layer contains polygon features that represent geological units in New Brunswick. The associated Bedrock Geology Relate Table contains details about each map unit, including: a brief legend description, Group name, Formation name, and rock age. This layer is the result of nearly 50 years of bedrock mapping and it continues to change as new interpretations are made and more data is collected through field work and analysis.

Organization: Government of New Brunswick | Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick
Till Sample Sites 1986-2014

This layer contains point features that represent reconnaissance till sampling locations collected by the New Brunswick Geological Survey between 1986 and 2014. Samples were collected on an approximated 2 km grid, with increased density over areas of interest. At each location, observations and measurements about the forest soil profile, terrain surface, and (in some locations) forest species information were recorded, and a soil sample was collected for geochemical, lithological, and grain size analysis. Observational data are included in this layer, but analytical results are not included in this layer.

Organization: Government of New Brunswick | Gouvernement du Nouveau-Brunswick
Vancouver’s Kryton helps to make buildings more durable around the world

Yuers’s company, Kryton International, already distributes its concrete hardening and waterproofing products in eight of the 10 countries that have joined Canada in signing the groundbreaking CPTPP. On December 30, 2018, Canada was among the first six countries in the group to ratify the agreement.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Family-owned cherry producer Jealous Fruits is exporting sweetness to the world 

Not unlike highly coveted truffles or the anticipated Beaujolais nouveau, Jealous Fruits’ cherries are a seasonal luxury that lifts the spirits of consumers, whether in grandma’s homemade pie or as a coulis used as a garnish at Michelin-star restaurants around the word.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Enbala helps the world energize efficiently

Canada and the United Kingdom threw out a challenge to their energy entrepreneurs last October: come up with a technology that can transform traditional electricity grids into energy systems that efficiently integrate power from diverse sources. Over the next two-and-a-half years, six teams from the two countries will receive up to $3 million each to devise such a system, with the winner collecting another $1 million.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Duha Group helps the world find its colours

When Rick Duha first went to Chile to expand his family business into a new market, he flipped through a phone book to find paint company listings. Duha wasn’t afraid to cold call businesses to establish trade partnerships for products like the paint colour cards found in hardware stores across Canada. He’s part of the Duha Group, based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which manufactures colour marketing tools and colour systems.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
Cypher Environmental looks to broaden its export reach to the world

Joseph Kurgat has made a remarkable journey. After qualifying as an accountant in his native Kenya, he came to Canada to further his studies and then joined Cypher Environmental Ltd. (Cypher), a Winnipeg, Manitoba-based manufacturer of environmentally friendly road-making materials. Today, at just 26 years old, Kurgat manages Cypher’s production plant.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
StackAdapt shows global reach with online advertising innovation

Vitaly Pecherskiy and co-founders Ildar Shar and Yang Han started StackAdapt in 2013 to apply data, analysis and machine learning to online advertising. They are now working with hundreds of companies globally and went from 56 employees in 2018 to 120 people only a year later. Exporting was directly responsible for this growth.

Organization: Global Affairs Canada | Affaires mondiales Canada
40 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data.

40 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data. Satellite derived data including 1) topography, 2) landscape productivity based on photosynthetic activity, and 3) land cover were used as inputs to create an environmental regionalization of the over 10 million km2 of Canada’s terrestrial land base. The outcomes of this clustering consists of three main outputs. An initial clustering of 100 classes was generated using a two-stage multivariate classification process. Next, an agglomerative hierarchy using a log-likelihood distance measure was applied to create a 40 and then a 14 class regionalization, aimed to meaningfully group ecologically similar components of Canada's terrestrial landscape. For more information (including a graphical illustration of the cluster hierarchy) and to cite this data please use: Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. 2009. An environmental domain classification of Canada using earth observation data for biodiversity assessment. Ecological Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp. 8-22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.09.005. ( Coops et al. 2009).

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
14 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data.

14 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data. Satellite derived data including 1) topography, 2) landscape productivity based on photosynthetic activity, and 3) land cover were used as inputs to create an environmental regionalization of the over 10 million km2 of Canada’s terrestrial land base. The outcomes of this clustering consists of three main outputs. An initial clustering of 100 classes was generated using a two-stage multivariate classification process. Next, an agglomerative hierarchy using a log-likelihood distance measure was applied to create a 40 and then a 14 class regionalization, aimed to meaningfully group ecologically similar components of Canada's terrestrial landscape. For more information (including a graphical illustration of the cluster hierarchy) and to cite this data please use: Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. 2009. An environmental domain classification of Canada using earth observation data for biodiversity assessment. Ecological Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp. 8-22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.09.005. ( Coops et al. 2009).

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
100 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data.

100 Class - Canadian Ecological Domain Classification from Satellite Data. Satellite derived data including 1) topography, 2) landscape productivity based on photosynthetic activity, and 3) land cover were used as inputs to create an environmental regionalization of the over 10 million km2 of Canada’s terrestrial land base. The outcomes of this clustering consists of three main outputs. An initial clustering of 100 classes was generated using a two-stage multivariate classification process. Next, an agglomerative hierarchy using a log-likelihood distance measure was applied to create a 40 and then a 14 class regionalization, aimed to meaningfully group ecologically similar components of Canada's terrestrial landscape. For more information (including a graphical illustration of the cluster hierarchy) and to cite this data please use: Coops, N.C., Wulder, M.A., Iwanicka, D. 2009. An environmental domain classification of Canada using earth observation data for biodiversity assessment. Ecological Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 1, Pp. 8-22, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2008.09.005. ( Coops et al. 2009).

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Management of the RCMP Conduct Process

In 2008, the Minister of Public Safety issued the Ministerial Directive on the RCMP Disciplinary Process. The directive requires the RCMP to complete annual reports on the management of the RCMP discipline process. The reports outlines the structure and processes governing the management of discipline within the RCMP, provides statistics and identifies common trends each fiscal year, describes successes and challenges, and outlines strategies to be engaged to resolve the challenges in the following year. 

Organization: Royal Canadian Mounted Police | Gendarmerie royale du Canada
Climate Normals 1981-2010

Climate Normals and Averages are used to summarize or describe the average climatic conditions of a particular location. At the completion of each decade, Environment and Climate Change Canada updates its Climate Normals for as many locations and as many climatic characteristics as possible. The Climate Normals, Averages and Extremes offered here are based on Canadian climate stations with at least 15 years of data between 1981 to 2010.

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Changes in the status of wildlife species at risk

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Changes in the status of wildlife species at risk indicator reports on changes in wildlife species designations for wildlife species assessed by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). The conservation of wildlife species at risk is a key component of Canada’s Nature Strategy, which aims to conserve biological diversity in Canada. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: static and interactive maps, charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.


Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Species at risk population trends

The Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators (CESI) program provides data and information to track Canada's performance on key environmental sustainability issues. The Species at risk population trends indicator shows whether the population and distribution trends of species at risk are consistent with the objectives set out in final recovery strategies or management plans. The indicator provides a preliminary assessment of whether recovery or management efforts are on track. Information is provided to Canadians in a number of formats including: charts and graphs, HTML and CSV data tables and downloadable reports. See the supplementary documentation for the data sources and details on how the data were collected and how the indicator was calculated.


Canadian Environmental Sustainability Indicators: https://www.canada.ca/environmental-indicators

Organization: Environment and Climate Change Canada | Environnement et Changement climatique Canada
Assessing fuel structure in old-growth eastern hemlock dominated stands of Nova Scotia, Canada 

We present a dataset of measurements and observations of combustible live and dead vegetation (also known as fuel structure) in 15 old-growth stands dominated by eastern hemlock from southern to central Nova Scotia, Canada. The 15 stands were selected along a gradient of a recorded hemlock woolly adelgid infestation in Nova Scotia. We collected fuel structure data by applying the Next-Generation Fuels sampling protocol associated with the Next-Generation Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System. The principle application for this database is to permit the comparison of fuel structure across the different stands. Additional applications include informing local to national fuel type mapping when combined with remote sensing products, estimating potential fire behaviour under specific fire-weather conditions, predicting stand successional pathways, and assessing fuel complex changes over time with future sampling at the same locations.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Longevity and fecundity of females from six Trichogramma species depending on the access to hosts and food

In this study, we investigated the impact of different food sources on life-history traits, such as longevity and fecundity, in females egg parasitoids of six Trichogramma species (two thelytokous and four arrhenotokous): T. cacoeciae Marchal, T. chilonis Ishii, T. minutum Riley, T. leptoparameron Dyurich, T. pintoi Voegele and T. sibericum Sorokina (Hymenoptera: Trichogrammatidae). Five treatments were tested: control (no food, no host), sugar (provided as honey), sugar and hosts, hosts. Hosts were provided as eggs of Ephestia kuehniella. Females were either dissected and oocytes were count at emergence, at death or at different time during their life.

Organization: Natural Resources Canada | Ressources naturelles Canada
Minor Use Pesticides Program Submission Status by Fiscal Year

The Pest Management Centre Minor Use Pesticides Program is a joint initiative between Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) to improve the availability of reduced-risk products to agricultural producers and improve the access to a broad range of minor use pesticides. The PMC reviews the data resulting from field trials and laboratory analyses, and prepares a submission to PMRA to support the registration of the minor use pesticide. Upon receiving a finalized regulatory submission from PMC, PMRA reviews it and decides whether or not to accept the pesticide for use in Canada.

This list of submissions to PMRA is the result of PMC’s work and is for information purposes only. To find out if the pesticide can be used, please check with the pesticide manufacturer or visit PMRA's pesticide label database.  

Organization: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada | Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada
Algorithmic Impact Assessment - Client Reporting and Engagement System (CRES)/ReportIn

Detailed results from the Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) for the Remote Reporting program. The AIA is a questionnaire designed to help assess and mitigate the risks associated with deploying an automated decision system. The AIA also helps identify the impact level of the automated decision system under the Directive on Automated Decision-Making.

The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) is committed to using technology responsibly. The Agency developed a Remote Reporting tool consisting of a CBSA-facing technical backend system and a voluntary public-facing mobile device/smartphone app where individuals subject to reporting conditions are able to report remotely to the CBSA by collecting facial biometrics as a form of authenticating the individual’s identity. The app uses automated facial recognition software and geographic data to verify the identity and location of individuals.

CBSA trained staff will review every report made by an individual. This approach ensures that human judgment and discretion are applied to the results, promoting accountability and accuracy in the system's operation.

Organization: Canada Border Services Agency | Agence des services frontaliers du Canada
Streams and Rivers - Thermal Habitat - Pukaskwa

Since 2009, up to nine (9) streams (White River, Willow River, Oiseau Creek, White Gravel River, North Swallow River, Swallow River, Cascade River, Tagouche Creek and Imogene Creek) are monitored with stream temperature HOBO loggers to assess thermal suitability for Brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis).   In 2016 and 2017, a second logger was deployed at each of the streams. Loggers are deployed in each stream during the summer, between Lake Superior and the first barrier. Data from the two loggers are analyzed separately for each week and the lower maximum weekly trimean temperature from each stream is used.  Data are analyzed to determine if stream temperatures are increasing or decreasing and affecting the ecological integrity of the stream, and thereby affecting brook trout habitat.

Organization: Parks Canada | Parcs Canada