Bill C-32

(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;

(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.

(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 a result of a chemical reaction, and

(d) complex combinations of different molecules that originate in nature or are the result of chemical reactions but that could not practicably be formed by simply combining individual constituents,

and, except for the purposes of sections 66, 80 to 89 and 104 to 115, includes

(e) any mixture that is a combination of substances and does not itself produce a substance that is different from the substances that were combined,

(f) any manufactured item that is formed into a specific physical shape or design during manufacture and has, for its final use, a function or functions dependent in whole or in part on its shape or design, and

(g) any animate matter that is, or any complex mixtures of different molecules that are, contained in effluents, emissions or wastes that result from any work, undertaking or activity.

HER MAJESTY

PART 1

ADMINISTRATION

Advisory Committees

(a) to advise the Ministers on regulations proposed to be made under subsection 93(1);

(b) to advise the Minister on a cooperative, coordinated intergovernmental approach for the management of toxic substances; and

(c) to advise the Minister on other environmental matters that are of mutual interest to the Government of Canada and other governments and to which this Act relates.

(a) one representative for each of the Ministers;

(b) one representative of the government of each of the provinces; and

(c) subject to subsection (3), not more than six representatives of aboriginal governments, to be selected on the following regional basis,

(i) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick,

(ii) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Quebec,

(iii) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Ontario,

(iv) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut,

(v) one representative for all aboriginal governments, except Inuit, in British Columbia and the Yukon Territory, and

(vi) one representative for all Inuit aboriginal governments.

(a) establish advisory committees to report to the Ministers or either Minister; and

(b) specify the functions that the committees are to perform and the manner in which those functions are to be performed.

Agreements Respecting Administration

(a) with the approval of the Governor in Council, enter into an agreement with a government or an aboriginal people with respect to the administration of this Act; and

(b) subject to any terms and conditions that the Governor in Council may specify in the approval, agree to amendments of the agreement.