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….institutional and policy innovations Glen Toner Post 1987 Record is Mixed … … many accomplishments …. But … Federal Government ‘underperforming’ at both political and bureaucratic levels Result declining international reputation Canada no longer top performer or leader 2007 GoC SD ‘Change Process’ stalled W.R. What “fully conscious’ institutional & policy changes should we undertake ? SD … not Cons/Lib/NDP/BQ/Green idea In power – all parties suffer ‘cognitive dissonance’ ie. Gap btw legitimate aspirations of Canadians - What governments know they have to do What they actually do ie. Issue of … ‘walking the talk’ … ‘implementation gap’ Institutional Changes Political 1) SD Committee of Cabinet 2) SEA 3) Create Dept of Finance and Natural Capital 4) Independent Parliamentary Commissioner of Environment & SD Bureaucratic 1) PCO – DM accountability 2) Create Dept of SD 3) Focus SDS on key departments Policy changes EFR Mkt-based society/ int’al Information Never recovered laggard Price signals matter Emerging social consensus GBC/CD Howe/CCCE Tax shift to energy & consumption taxes from distortinary taxes on capital and labour SOER/PR Govt manages what it accounts for Need ltd # of goals & targets against which to evaluate progress Create Environmental Objectives Council to Report to Parliament Build ‘societal’ SD capacity/literacy Very limited compared to educ/health/economic Genuine Progress Indicators Few ‘independent voices’ speak authoritatively, influence public opinion Lifestyle/consumption/behavioural changes required + on the way … anticipatory – or – just reactive OCF … need to generate ‘societal consensus’ to underpin ‘political consensus’ Porritt … next 20 years a test of our ‘survival instinct’ Ruckelshaus … a unique experiment