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Wednesday, June 2, 2021
By Mike Beale RGI’s latest case study[1] The Dog that Doesn’t Bark -- Federal Regulation of Industrial Air Pollution in Canada pays homage to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes. In a well-known story, Holmes solved a murder mystery by pointing to the “curious incident of the dog in the night-time”. “The dog... More
Monday, June 15, 2020
By Mike Beale RGI’s new case study, Canada’s Fisheries Act: the Evolution of a Modern Pollution Prevention Regulatory Regime tells the story of how Canada’s federal water pollution regime evolved over a 150 year period to what it is today. For those not immersed in this issue, the Fisheries Act is the legal basis... More
Friday, February 14, 2020
By Mike Beale Last summer I had the occasion to immerse myself in the world of public policy as seen through an academic lens. I had agreed to participate as a panelist at an academic conference, and review three textbooks from my practitioner’s perspective. I must admit, I didn’t fully appreciate at the time... More
Friday, May 10, 2019
Mike Beale A bit like Tolstoy’s unhappy families (see Anna Karenina), every regulation has its own story, and its own set of lessons. Coal-Fired Electricity – a Regulatory Case Study, in a Narrative of Canada-US Harmonization tells the story of Canada’s first federal regulations targeting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary... More
Monday, April 29, 2019
Mike Beale. Hi. Let me introduce myself. I recently departed Environment and Climate Change Canada having spent my career working in environmental and energy policy, the last 13 years of which in a senior environmental regulatory position, and now enjoy the title of Practitioner-in-Residence at Carleton’s School of Public Policy and... More
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