Canada Gazette, Part I, Volume 158, Number 33: GOVERNMENT NOTICES

August 17, 2024

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999

Publication of results of investigations for approximately 25 200 substances specified on the Domestic Substances List (paragraph 68(b) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999)

Whereas Health Canada developed a science approach document, available on the Canada.ca (Chemical substances) website, describing a scientific approach that was applied to the Domestic Substances List (DSL) in order to prioritize their human health risk based on inherent hazard properties, current use in products and quantities in commerce;

Whereas a summary of the science approach conducted on the substances under paragraph 68(b) of the Act is annexed hereby;

And whereas the approach outlined in the science approach document will be used to assist the Government of Canada to effectively identify substances with human health concerns to be considered for inclusion on the plan described in section 73 of the Act,

Notice is hereby given that the approach outlined in the science approach document may be used for future chemical prioritization and assessment activities under section 68 of the Act.

Public comment period

Any person may, within 60 days after publication of this notice, file with the Minister of the Environment written comments on the scientific considerations presented in the science approach document. More information regarding the scientific considerations may be obtained from the Canada.ca (Chemical substances) website. All comments must cite the Canada Gazette, Part I, and the date of publication of this notice and be sent by mail to the Executive Director, Substance Prioritization, Assessment and Coordination Division, Department of the Environment, Gatineau, Quebec K1A 0H3, by email to substances@ec.gc.ca or by using the online reporting system available through Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Single Window.

In accordance with section 313 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, any person who provides information in response to this notice may submit with the information a request that it be treated as confidential.

Greg Carreau
Director General
Safe Environments Directorate
On behalf of the Minister of Health

ANNEX

Summary of the science approach document

The Health Canada Automated Workflow for Prioritization (HAWPr) has been developed to more efficiently collect, organize and process chemical data to further expand on the methods used for identification of risk assessment priorities under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA). The HAWPr is a computational tool that integrates inputs across various sources and scripting languages, as well as conducts analytics on large data sets. The HAWPr was built to automate four categories of sequential prioritization tasks: (1) chemical data collection; (2) data gap filling and predictive modelling; (3) evidence evaluation and confidence scoring; and (4) hazard and exposure-based prioritization.

This science approach document (SciAD) presents the key elements of the HAWPr, including

the information sources where data is collected;
predictive modelling approach for data-poor chemicals;
the human health hazards considered and the criteria for determining if a substance has a hazard indicator;
substance use patterns and volume considerations used in a weight-of-evidence evaluation to determine exposure potential;
the integration of hazard and exposure information for risk-based prioritization;
validation of the workflow by comparing prioritization decisions against known hazardous substances and those with known human exposure;
proposed outcomes for substances on the DSL; and
limitations and uncertainties of the tool.

The SciAD demonstrates that the HAWPr is a robust tool that will improve how substances are prioritized for assessment work under CEPA in order to continue to protect the health of people living in Canada. Automation of these tasks helps to improve transparency and thoroughness of information review by simultaneously enabling access to over a million records from curated toxicity and exposure data sets, while increasing efficiencies and reproducibility in the overall process. The HAWPr was designed to allow flexibility of components within the tool as appropriate to keep pace with evolving science. As a result, future developments are not limited by the confines of any one piece of software, scripting language, or individual expertise, and decision flows can be refined and expanded as information presents itself. Preliminary results for the use of the HAWPr on the substances on the DSL are available as a supporting document to this approach.

A consultation period on this science approach document is being provided in advance of the use of this information in prioritization activities to allow the public to comment and provide additional information on the approach and its application to the DSL. Implementation of the HAWPr approach described in this science approach document will assist the Government in identifying substances with a potential human health concern in a more efficient manner.

The science approach document is available on the Canada.ca (Chemical substances) website.

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRY

OFFICE OF THE REGISTRAR GENERAL

Appointments

Associate Deputy Minister of Environment and Climate Change
- Moffet, John Christopher, Order in Council 2024-868
Associate Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
- McCardell, Sandra, Order in Council 2024-870
Canada Infrastructure Bank
- Directors of the board of directors
Canadian Accessibility Standards Development Organization
- Directors
- Vice-Chair
Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
- Full-time permanent member and President
Chief Military Judge
- Deschênes, Commander Catherine Julie, Order in Council 2024-207
Chief of the Defence Staff
- Carignan, Lieutenant-General Jennie, Order in Council 2024-855
Copyright Board
- Vice-Chair
Deputy Minister for the G7 Summit and Personal Representative (Sherpa) of the Prime Minister for G7 and G20 Summits
- Termorshuizen, Cynthia, Order in Council 2024-793
Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet (Artificial Intelligence), Privy Council Office
- Schaan, Mark, Order in Council 2024-869
Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board
- Full-time member
Government of Canada
- Commissioner to administer oaths
Great Lakes Fishery Commission
- Member
National Security and Intelligence Review Agency Secretariat
- Executive Director
Nunavut Court of Justice, Order in Council 2024-889
- Deputy Judge
Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories, Order in Council 2024-890
- Deputy Judge
Supreme Court of Yukon, Order in Council 2024-891
- Deputy Judge
Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission
- Alternate member
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- Members
Social Security Tribunal
- Employment Insurance Section

August 9, 2024

Rachida Lagmiri
Official Documents Registrar

GLOBAL AFFAIRS CANADA

Consulting Canadians on the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA)

The Government of Canada is committed to strengthening and deepening relationships with its North American partners and to ensuring continued North American competitiveness and prosperity.

The Government of Canada is seeking the views of Canadians about the operation of the Canada–United States–Mexico Agreement (CUSMA). CUSMA entered into force on July 1, 2020, replacing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that had been in force since January 1, 1994. CUSMA continues to safeguard Canada’s preferential access to the United States and Mexico and drive the integration of a North American market that represents 506 million consumers and a combined GDP of $42 trillion.

In 2026, the first joint review of CUSMA will be undertaken. To prepare for the review, the Government is seeking your views and experiences on key areas of CUSMA that are working well and potential areas for improvement. Your views will help to inform Canada’s preparations for the joint review in 2026 and inform other efforts to ensure the effective operation of the Agreement, including under Canada’s Chairing of the Free Trade Commission in 2025 and committee work.

This notice is part of the Government of Canada’s ongoing domestic consultation process with stakeholders, provinces and territories, Indigenous peoples, businesses including small and medium-sized enterprises, civil society organizations, labour unions, academia, and individual Canadians.

As steps are taken to ensure that more Canadians have access to the benefits and opportunities that flow from international trade and investment, traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, youth, 2SLGBTQI+, and racialized communities are especially encouraged to provide their input.

Background

CUSMA, and NAFTA before it, have driven North American trade, market and supply chain integration, and supported collective prosperity for more than thirty years, providing certainty for business and investors. The CUSMA Parties benefit significantly from preferential market access under the Agreement. In 2023, the total value of trilateral merchandise trade between Canada, the United States, and Mexico was $1.93 trillion, an increase of 3.5% from 2022.

CUSMA sets high standards for trade in North America, which is particularly important for Canadian businesses, workers and communities. This includes outcomes in areas such as labour, environment, automotive trade, dispute resolution, culture, energy, and agriculture and agri-food. CUSMA also includes provisions on gender and Indigenous peoples’ rights.

So that the Parties could take stock of the operation of CUSMA and ensure the Agreement remains up to date and adapts to the evolving economic landscape, a review and term extension clause was included in CUSMA (Article 34.7). The CUSMA Parties will undertake the first joint review of the Agreement in 2026, which will be an opportunity to discuss the functioning of the Agreement, assess the progress of its implementation and consider how to ensure the Agreement is robust enough to address future challenges and to ensure continued North American competitiveness and prosperity.

Submissions guidelines

Global Affairs Canada is launching public consultations and inviting Canadians to submit their views, experiences, reflections and priorities with respect to the operation of CUSMA. Submissions received via these consultations will help inform Canada’s interests and positions on CUSMA going forward, including the 2026 joint review and as it chairs the CUSMA Free Trade Commission in 2025.

The text of CUSMA can be found at https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cusma-aceum/text-texte/toc-tdm.aspx?lang=eng.

CUSMA also includes side letters on WTO Agreement, Section 232 Tariffs – Autos and Auto Parts, Section 232 Tariffs – Future Measures, Energy, Wine, Natural Water Resources, and Guidelines for Research and Development Expenditures, 2004. These can be found at https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/trade-agreements-accords-commerciaux/agr-acc/cusma-aceum/text-texte/letters-lettres.aspx?lang=eng.

More information on the Government’s consultations on CUSMA can be found on the consultations web page at https://www.international.gc.ca/trade-commerce/consultations/TRQ-CT/operation-cusma-fonctionnement-aceum.aspx?lang=eng.

Interested parties are invited to submit their views by October 31, 2024. The submissions received by Global Affairs Canada become records under its control. In the event of a request under the Access to Information Act, relevant records are released subject to applicable exceptions to disclosure under the Act. Please read the privacy notice carefully prior to sending a written submission.

Submissions should include the following information:

1. The contributor’s name and address and, if applicable, the name of the contributor’s organization, institution or business;
2. The specific issues being addressed; and
3. Where possible, precise information on the rationale for the positions taken, including any significant impact it may have on Canada’s domestic or international interests.

Contributions can be sent to

CUSMA Consultations
Global Affairs Canada
Trade Negotiations – North America (TNP)
John G. Diefenbaker Building
111 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1N 1J1
Email: CUSMA-Consultations-ACEUM@international.gc.ca

Submissions by interested parties

The following are chapters that were included in CUSMA and are examples of areas where the Government would appreciate receiving views from Canadians:

Chapter 1: Initial Provisions and General Definitions, which sets out terminology and various general provisions of the agreement including the establishment of the free trade area.
Chapter 2: National Treatment and Market Access for Goods, which sets out the fundamental disciplines for trade in goods, with the aim of eliminating or reducing barriers to trade in goods.
Chapter 3: Agriculture, which preserves existing agriculture commitments between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico, and help bring together an already highly integrated industry.
Chapter 4: Rules of Origin, which includes automotive rules of origin elements to ensure that the benefits of the agreement accrue primarily to producers located in CUSMA countries.
Chapter 5: Origin Procedures, used by the customs administrations of each CUSMA country to administer the rules of origin of goods in order to enable the trade community to take advantage of the preferential tariff treatment afforded under CUSMA.
Chapter 6: Textile and Apparel Goods, which includes rules to support Canada’s textile and apparel sector, preserving the market access Canada has to the U.S. and Mexican markets and unique enforcement provisions to effectively administer the rules of origin specific to the textiles and apparel industry.
Chapter 7: Customs Administration and Trade Facilitation, which aims to reduce the transaction costs incurred by traders by simplifying, standardizing, and modernizing trade-related customs procedures to facilitate the movement of goods within the CUSMA territory.
Chapter 8: Recognition of the Mexican State’s Direct, Inalienable, and Imprescriptible Ownership of Hydrocarbons, without prejudice to the rights of Canada and the United States and remedies available under the Agreement.
Chapter 9: Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, which facilitates trade in agriculture, fisheries and forestry products in the North American region, deepens cooperation between regulatory authorities, and reflects the three parties’ extensive trade and regulatory relationship in food safety and animal and plant health.
Chapter 10: Trade Remedies, which recognizes it is important to minimize the disruptions that can result from the imposition of trade remedies and to ensure that trade remedies are applied in a fair, transparent and responsible way while maintaining recourse, when necessary, to an impartial binational panel dispute settlement mechanism to review anti-dumping and countervailing duty measures imposed by CUSMA partners.
Chapter 11: Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), which builds upon the parties’ commitments in the existing WTO Agreement on TBT, ensures technical regulations and standards are applied equally to products and goods originating from one of the three countries, and seeks to promote convergence of respective practices, where possible, while protecting each party’s right to regulate in its own best interests.
Chapter 12 : Sectoral Annexes, which incorporate sector-specific outcomes that build on and complement the obligations in the Technical Barriers to Trade and the Good Regulatory Practices chapters, promote regulatory transparency and predictability while preserving each party’s right to regulate in the public interest to achieve legitimate public policy objectives, such as the protection and promotion of public health, safety and the environment.
Chapter 13: Government Procurement (GP), where Canada and the U.S. retain access to each other’s procurement markets, including at the sub-federal level, through their obligations under the World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA); and, the government procurement obligations between Mexico and Canada are provided under the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Chapter 14: Investment, which contains a comprehensive and robust set of obligations and includes a corporate social responsibility (CSR) provision that reaffirms the importance of encouraging businesses to respect CSR standards, such as the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.
Chapter 15: Cross-Border Trade in Services, which includes obligations and commitments that provide enhanced transparency and predictability for service providers, including obligations that maintain a level playing field by ensuring that Canadian service suppliers will be afforded the same treatment as provided by other CUSMA countries to third Parties and to domestic service suppliers.
Chapter 16: Temporary Entry for Business Persons, which maintains the market access commitments negotiated under NAFTA, meaning workers and businesses of the CUSMA parties continue to benefit from the same preferential treatment enjoyed since 1994, and updates to provide greater certainty and clarity around the application of temporary entry provisions.
Chapter 17: Financial Services, which promotes a level playing field between Canadian, Mexican and U.S. financial service providers through a framework of general rules tailored to the unique nature of the financial sector.
Chapter 18: Telecommunications, which builds upon the existing telecommunications chapter between Canada, the United States and Mexico, leading to economic development and stimulating innovation.
Chapter 19: Digital Trade, which ensures that Canadian companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises, are able to take advantage of expanding online commercial opportunities, while also seeking to continue ensuring an online environment that builds consumer confidence and trust.
Chapter 20: Intellectual Property Rights, which establishes a legal framework of minimum standards for the protection and enforcement of IP rights in North America and includes obligations on copyright and related rights, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs, patents, data protection for pharmaceutical and agricultural chemical products, trade secrets, and IP rights enforcement.
Chapter 21: Competition Policy, which furthers the CUSMA parties’ goal of creating a fair, transparent, predictable and competitive business environment that ultimately benefits consumers.
Chapter 22: State-Owned Enterprises and Designated Monopolies, which seeks to ensure a level playing field between these entities and the private sector, while at the same time preserving the ability of Crown corporations to provide public services.
Chapter 23: Labour, which is fully subject to the dispute settlement provisions of the Agreement, and which aims to raise and improve labour standards and working conditions in all three countries by building on international labour principles and rights.
Chapter 24: Environment, which strengthens and modernizes environmental provisions in a comprehensive chapter that establishes a binding and enforceable dispute resolution process to address any questions regarding compliance and includes recourse to the broader CUSMA dispute settlement mechanism if countries are not able to resolve the matter through consultation and cooperation.
Chapter 25: Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises, which is designed to complement commitments undertaken throughout the agreement, notably by fostering cooperation among the parties to increase trade and investment opportunities for SMEs, and ensuring information is available to SMEs on the obligations and functioning of CUSMA.
Chapter 26: Competitiveness, which recognizes North America’s unique commercial ties, extensive trade flows and integrated production platform and focuses on strengthening regional economic growth, prosperity and competitiveness through the promotion of economic integration and the enhanced competitiveness of the region’s exports.
Chapter 27: Anticorruption, which is reflective of Canada’s commitment to fighting corruption, which builds on our domestic anticorruption framework as well as on our efforts under existing international conventions, including at the United Nations, the Organization of American States and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Chapter 28: Good Regulatory Practices, which furthers the goal of working together to ensure transparent, predictable and aligned regulatory systems that foster stronger trade relations and protect citizens, and recognizes voluntary regulatory cooperation as an important good regulatory practice to facilitate trade and investment among the CUSMA parties.
Chapter 29: Publication and Administration, which addresses the publication and administration of laws, regulations, measures and administrative proceedings, ensuring that they are developed and applied in an open, transparent and consistent manner, and addresses the transparency and procedural fairness for pharmaceutical products and medical devices.
Chapter 30: Administrative and Institutional Provisions, which sets the ground rules for the free trade agreement by establishing its legal and institutional structure.
Chapter 31: Dispute Settlement, which provides for a transparent and clear mechanism for the resolution of disputes between Canada, the United States and Mexico regarding the interpretation and application of the Agreement. Almost all obligations in the Agreement, including those related to labour and the environment, are subject to this dispute settlement system.
Chapter 32: Exceptions and General Provisions, which sets out commitments made between the CUSMA parties to exclude certain areas from the Agreement or to set out obligations that apply more generally across the agreement.
Chapter 33: Macroeconomic Policies and Exchange Rate Matters, which is dedicated to macroeconomic policy and exchange rate issues, demonstrating the CUSMA partners’ unified commitment to avoiding currency manipulation, and sets out a high standard for transparency and public reporting, creating a model that can be used for global adoption.
Chapter 34: Final Provisions, which includes a process for regular modernization to help ensure a stable, up-to-date trading environment for Canadian consumers, businesses and investors.

INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CANADA

RADIOCOMMUNICATION ACT

Notice No. SMSE-009-24 — Release of SRSP-506, issue 3

Notice is hereby given that Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada has released the following document:

Standard Radio System Plan SRSP-506, issue 3, Technical Requirements for Land Mobile and Fixed Radio Services, Including Broadband Systems, in the Bands 896-901 MHz and 935-940 MHz

This standard sets out the minimum technical requirements for the purpose of efficient spectrum utilization for land mobile and fixed point-to-point systems (narrowband systems) operating in the bands 896-901 MHz and 935-940 MHz, as well as broadband systems in rural and remote areas in the bands 897.5-900.5 MHz and 936.5-939.5 MHz.

This document is now official and available on the Published documents page of the Spectrum management and telecommunications website.

Submitting comments

Comments and suggestions for improving this document may be submitted online using the Standard Change Request form.

August 8, 2024

Shari Scott
Acting Director General
Engineering, Planning and Standards Branch

PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE

Appointment opportunities

We know that our country is stronger — and our government more effective — when decision-makers reflect Canada’s diversity. The Government of Canada has implemented an appointment process that is transparent and merit-based, strives for gender parity, and ensures that Indigenous peoples and minority groups are properly represented in positions of leadership. We continue to search for Canadians who reflect the values that we all embrace: inclusion, honesty, fiscal prudence, and generosity of spirit. Together, we will build a government as diverse as Canada.

We are equally committed to providing a healthy workplace that supports one’s dignity, self-esteem and the ability to work to one’s full potential. With this in mind, all appointees will be expected to take steps to promote and maintain a healthy, respectful and harassment-free work environment.

The Government of Canada is currently seeking applications from diverse and talented Canadians from across the country who are interested in the following positions.

Current opportunities

The following opportunities for appointments to Governor in Council positions are currently open for applications. Every opportunity is open for a minimum of two weeks from the date of posting on the Governor in Council appointments website.

Governor in Council appointment opportunities


Position	Organization	Closing date
Director	Bank of Canada
Chairperson	Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation
Chairperson	Canada Infrastructure Bank
Director	Canada Lands Company Limited
Director	Canadian Air Transport Security Authority
Director	Canadian Commercial Corporation
Director	Canadian Energy Regulator
President	Canadian Institutes of Health Research
Director	Canadian Race Relations Foundation
Director	Canadian Tourism Commission
Chairperson	Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Vice-Chairperson	Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Member	Copyright Board
Director	Defence Construction (1951) Limited
Executive Head	Employment Insurance Board of Appeal
Member	Employment Insurance Board of Appeal	September 19, 2024
Regional Coordinator	Employment Insurance Board of Appeal	September 19, 2024
President	Export Development Canada
Vice-Chairperson	Federal Public Sector Labour Relations and Employment Board
Commissioner	Financial Consumer Agency of Canada
Commissioner	First Nations Tax Commission
Director (Federal)	Halifax Port Authority
Member	Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Deputy Chairperson and Member, Refugee Appeal Division	Immigration and Refugee Board
Chairperson	Laurentian Pilotage Authority
Chairperson	National Advisory Council on Poverty
Member (Children’s Issues)	National Advisory Council on Poverty
Member	National Arts Centre Corporation
Chairperson	National Seniors Council
Member	National Seniors Council
Member	Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
Member	Net-Zero Advisory Body
Canadian Representative	North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization
Commissioner of Official Languages	Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages for Canada
Senate Ethics Officer	Office of the Senate Ethics Officer
Administrator	Ship-source Oil Pollution Fund and Fund for Railway Accidents Involving Designated Goods
Chief Statistician	Statistics Canada
Co-chair	Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council
Member	Sustainable Jobs Partnership Council
Chairperson	VIA Rail Canada Inc.

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