GREEN SCREEN ON DECISIONS

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Earlier this month a new law was passed that received Royal Assent. Regardless of who or what decisions are being made by senior public servants, an outline of how the environment will be affected will need to be put forth. The environment must be attempted to be protected at all cost, failure to comply will result in consequences such as losing their annual bonuses. This also applies to politicians in trying to ensure that the government’s environmental goals are being met.
I think this is a wonderful measure to try to encourage the whole ‘go green’ goals of Canada. This is another step towards environmental commitments that need to be made and should be made. Now public servants and the government will work towards trying to sustain our environment the best we can. I hope now ‘going green’ can be taken more seriously on all decisions being made that would affect the environment in any way.

I definitely think this is a great idea because the environment would be taken into consideration more and be given a priority. However, what percentage of bonuses would be deemed acceptable to take from these public service executives? What price do they have to pay for making decisions that affect the environment? What do you think? It seems like they still have some fine tuning on this law that need to be made.

-VL