{"id":1733,"date":"2019-04-29T13:23:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T17:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/?p=1733"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:42:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:42:55","slug":"where-im-coming-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/2019\/where-im-coming-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where I\u2019m Coming From\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Where I\u2019m Coming From\u2026\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/people\/mike-beale\/\">Mike Beale<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 杏吧原创\u2019s School of Public Policy and Administration.&nbsp; Through this blog I would like over the next little while to share my Practitioner\u2019s Perspective on Environmental Regulation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I start from a few basic principles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>that environmental policy is in its adolescence as a policy area<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>that environmental regulation \u2013 defined broadly to include economic regulation such as carbon pricing &#8212; is not <em>a <\/em>tool of environmental policy, but <em>the<\/em> tool<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>that environmental regulation in Canada is at an even earlier stage of development than environmental policy writ large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>John Braithwaite, David Levi-Faur, Jacint Jordana and other scholars have pointed to the global expansion of regulation, in all policy areas, over the last 50 years or so.&nbsp; As markets have become more vibrant, so has regulation \u2013 they have coined the term \u201cregulatory capitalism\u201d to capture this idea. Braithwaite\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/johnbraithwaite.com\/regulatory-capitalism\/\">animated graphic<\/a> is a powerful illustration of this phenomenon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Consistent with this global trend, Canada has seen rapid growth in federal environmental regulation since about 2002, as demonstrated in the chart below (personal communication from Environment and Climate Change Canada). As you may imagine from my background, and the principles above, I see that as a good thing!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In my work at 杏吧原创 I will be writing a series of case studies based on some of these recent regulations, and will provide updates and discuss some cross-cutting themes in this blog. First case study out of the gate will be the coal-fired electricity regulations of 2012!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of the themes that will be explored in these case studies and blog posts include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Simple doesn\u2019t mean stupid \u2013 you can build innovation and flexibility into even the most basic of regulations<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep your eye on the ball \u2013 never forget what the real issue is<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prescriptive vs. outcome-based \u2013 well, it depends<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There\u2019s always a way &#8212; smart regulatory design can achieve multiple objectives<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Administrative costs matter too<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>But we want to be regulated<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There\u2019s always something new\u2026<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dancing with provinces<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Growing Eco-up (I will explain\u2026)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Above all, listen<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So much to write about.&nbsp; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike Beale<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Environment and Climate Change Canada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Regulations and Equivalents* in Force and Projected<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp; &nbsp; *&nbsp;<\/strong>\u201cEquivalents\u201d includes Orders and significant amendments to regulations and Schedules<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1735\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"885\" height=\"578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC.png 2757w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC-160x104.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC-240x157.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC-768x501.png 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC-400x261.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/220\/Regulations-and-Equivalents-in-Force-and-Projected-ECCC-360x235.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 885px) 100vw, 885px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 杏吧原创\u2019s School of Public Policy and Administration.&nbsp; Through this blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-practitioners-perspective","category-rgi-blog"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1922,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1733\/revisions\/1922"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/rgi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}