Strategic environmental and economic assessments: Finance Canada

The Cabinet Directive on Strategic Environmental and Economic Assessment (SEEA) seeks to enhance the understanding and integration of expected environmental and economic effects of proposals referred to Cabinet for decision as well as funding requests. In doing so, SEEA aims to help minimize harms and maximize benefits for the environment and the economy.

Under the Directive, when a detailed assessment has been conducted and the proposal has been announced or implemented, departments and agencies are required to issue a public statement on the environmental and economic effects of the proposal. The public statement provides assurance that environmental and economic effects have been considered during proposal development and decision-making.

This Directive replaces the Cabinet Directive on the Environmental Assessment of Policy, Plan and Program Proposals, also known as Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA), which called for the preparation of a public statement of environmental effects for proposals that were subject to a detailed strategic environmental assessment.

On this page, Finance Canada provides access to all public statements released under both Directives for the Department.

Public statements: Strategic Environmental and Economic Assessments

• No public statements have been developed at this time. Updates will be posted on this page.

Public statements: Strategic Environmental Assessments

• Public Statements regarding Environmental Effects

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