Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 — C-15.31 3
 Canada as determined under the Oceans Act , including the seabed and subsoil below and the airspace above those waters, and (ii) the territorial sea of Canada as determined under the Oceans Act , including the seabed and subsoil below and the air and all layers of the atmosphere above that sea. ( territoire domanial ) federal source means (a) a department of the Government of Canada; (b) an agency of the Government of Canada or other body established by or under an Act of Parliament that is ultimately accountable through a minister of the Crown in right of Canada to Parliament for the conduct of its affairs; (c) a Crown corporation as defined in subsection 83(1) of the Financial Administration Act ; or (d) a federal work or undertaking. ( source d’origine fédérale ) federal work or undertaking means any work or undertaking that is within the legislative authority of Parliament, including (a) a work or undertaking operated for or in connection with navigation and shipping, whether inland or maritime, including the operation of ships and transportation by ship; (b) a railway, canal, telegraph or other work or undertaking connecting one province with another, or extending beyond the limits of a province; (c) a line of ships connecting a province with any other province, or extending beyond the limits of a province; (d) a ferry between any province and any other province or between any province and any country other than Canada; (e) airports, aircraft and commercial air services; (f) a broadcast undertaking; (g) a bank or an authorized foreign bank within the meaning of section 2 of the Bank Act ; (h) a work or undertaking that, although wholly situated within a province, is before or after its completion declared by Parliament to be for the general advantage of Canada or for the advantage of two or more provinces; and (i) a work or undertaking outside the exclusive legislative authority of the legislatures of the provinces. ( entreprises fédérales ) fuel means any form of matter that is combusted or oxidized for the generation of energy. ( combustible ) government means the government of a province or of a territory or an aboriginal government. ( gouvernement ) healthy environment means an environment that is clean, healthy and sustainable. ( environnement sain ) Minister means the Minister of the Environment. ( ministre ) movement within Canada or transport within Canada means movement or transport between provinces. ( mouvement au Canada ou transport au Canada ) pollution prevention means the use of processes, practices, materials, products, substances or energy that avoid or minimize the creation of pollutants and waste and reduce the overall risk to the environment or human health. ( prévention de la pollution ) precautionary principle means Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, which provides that the lack of full scientific certainty shall not be used as a reason for postponing cost-effective measures to prevent environmental degradation if there are threats of serious or irreversible damage. ( principe de précaution ) prescribed means prescribed by regulations made under this Act. ( Version anglaise seulement ) province includes a territory. ( province ) release includes discharge, spray, inject, inoculate, abandon, deposit, spill, leak, seep, pour, emit, empty, throw, dump, place and exhaust. ( rejet ) sell includes to offer for sale or lease, have in possession for sale or lease or deliver for sale or lease. ( vente ) substance means any distinguishable kind of organic or inorganic matter, whether animate or inanimate, and includes (a) any matter that is capable of being dispersed in the environment or of being transformed in the environment into matter that is capable of being so dispersed or that is capable of causing such transformations in the environment, (b) any element or free radical, (c) any combination of elements of a particular molecular identity that occurs in nature or as