Division
Environment Canada is divided into several geographic regions:
- Atlantic (Maritimes and Newfoundland and Labrador)
- National Capital
- Ontario
- Pacific-Yukon (BC and Yukon)
- Prairie-Northern (Nunavut, NWT and Prairies)
- Quebec
The department has several organizations which carry out specific tasks:
- Enforcement Branch
- Environmental Enforcement
- Wildlife Enforcement
- Environmental Stewardship Branch
- Canadian Wildlife Service
- Chemical Sectors
- Energy and Transportation
- Environmental Protection Operations
- Legislative and Regulatory Affairs
- Strategic Priorities
- Meteorological Service of Canada (for weather forecasting; climate, air quality and water monitoring)
- Weather and environmental monitoring (Climate Monitoring, Water Survey of Canada)
- Weather and Environmental Operations (Regional Weather Operations)
- Weather and Environmental Prediction and Services (Defence Weather Services, Marine and Ice Services, National Weather Predictions, Weatheradio Canada, a national system of emergency weather broadcast transmitters)
- Canadian Hurricane Centre
- Science and Technology Branch
- Atmospheric and Climate Science
- National Water Research Institute
- National Pollutant Release Inventory
- Wildlife and Landscape Science
- Air Quality Mobile Source Emissions Measurement and Research
The Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency is an arms-length agency that reports to the Minister of Environment
Parks Canada, which manages the Canadian National Parks system, was removed from Environment Canada and became an agency reporting to the Minister of Heritage in 1998. In 2003, responsibility for Parks Canada was returned to the Minister of the Environment.
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