Can water quality trading help to address agricultural sources of pollution in Canada?

The project benefited from the active support of It is important to note that the goal of this report and Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Environment of the project more generally is not to promote any Canada. [...] This might used to support agricultural activities and require the kind of co-ordination that may only to promote better environmental outcomes to be possible if an appropriate policy is in place avoid counter-productive efforts; to clarify the Government of Canada’s role in • producing a guide to WQT adapted to the watershed-based management. [...] Before A more direct option available to the Government offering concluding remarks on the feasibility of of Canada could be to introduce more stringent WQT in Canada, we isolate in Chapter 9 insights regulations than those already in place in the learned in terms of instrument choice and mixes Canadian Environmental Protection Act to address of instruments. [...] The 1999 Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) defines a nutrient as any “substance or combination of substances that, if released in any waters, provides nourishment that promotes the growth of vegetation.” Under the Act, the Governor in Council may, on the recommendation of the minister, make regulations for the purpose of preventing or reducing the growth of aquatic vegetation that is ca [...] Canadian context, finding the other policy tools The main reason for this general lack of success, that should be used to complement educational according to Gunningham and Sinclair (2004a), and voluntary approaches given the current basically lies in the fact that voluntary programs will preference for some form of community-based work to the extent farmers’ and societal interests approach to the