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Government of Canada
The Minerals and Metals Policy of Government of Canada: Partnership for Sustainable Development was adopted in 1996.
The Policy aims at six big objectives
- To integrate the concept of sustainable development into the Federal decisional process affecting the Mineral and Metals industry;
- To assure the international competitivity of Canadian mineral and metals industry in the context of an open and liberal scheme for investment and commercial on a planet wide scale;
- To promote the concept of sustainable development of the mineral and metals sector internationally by forming partnership with other countries, interveners, and multilateral institutions and organizations;
- To make Canada a world leader in the promotion of safe use of minerals, metals and manufactured mineral and metal goods;
- To promote the participation of First Nations People in activities concerning minerals and metals;
- To provide a frame work for advancement and application of science and technology in order to improve the competitively and environmental management of industry.
In this situation we note that
"The Government supports the principle of safe use and favours its country wide application as well as its adoption internationally as a strategic approach for minerals, metals and manufactured mineral and metal goods, and their uses."
And that
… "The principle of safe use recognizes that minerals, metals and manufactured mineral and metal goods can be produced, used, refused, recycled and returned to the environment in a way that conforms to the principles of sustainable development".
And lastly that
…" inorganic substances present in their natural state in the environment, like minerals and metals, do not behave in the same way as chemical products which are both organic and synthetic and this requires resorting to special methods of risk management;
Minerals and metals themselves are not substances which we could prohibit, suppress gradually or really eliminate".
Who to find
The Minerals and metals Policy of Government of Canada :
Partnership for Sustainable Development Ministry of Public Works and Governmental Services Canada 1996
Catalogue No : M37-37/1996E
ISBN 0-662-25154-7
A limited number of copies of this publication are available
without charge at :
Minerals and Metals Sector
Natural Resources Canada
Ottawa (Ontario) K1A 0E4
Telephone : (613) 947-6580
Fax : (613) 952-7501
This document is also available on the internet,
At Natural Resources Canada website :
http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/mms/sdev/policy-e.htm
