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=== Overview===
First announced in the 2018 Fall Economic Statement, the Regulators’ Capacity Fund (RCF) responds to calls from Canada’s business community, which has been vocal in its desire for regulators to give increased weight to economic and competitiveness considerations in the development and enforcement of regulations. The Government of Canada has committed funding of up to $10M over three years for this purpose.  
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The Regulators’ Capacity Fund (RCF) responds to calls from Canada’s business community, which has been vocal in its desire for regulators to give increased weight to economic and competitiveness considerations in the development and enforcement of regulations. From 2020-2025, the RCF supported 37 projects with over $14.2 million in funding.  
 
 
To help regulators improve their capacity to incorporate economic and competitiveness considerations in the design and implementation of regulations, the aims of the Fund are to:
 
:*improve capacity to accurately assess the economic impacts of regulatory proposals; and,
 
:*support regulators in designing and administering regulations in a manner that, to the extent possible, facilitates economic growth and competitiveness.
 
  
The RCF supports departments and agencies in undertaking projects or initiatives, ranging in scope, that contribute to the enhancement of regulatory capacity. This involves supporting initiatives that would help regulators carry out their functions in a way that is conducive to economic growth. These initiatives would ultimately contribute to enhanced regulatory competitiveness in or beyond their respective sectors.
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To help regulators improve their capacity to incorporate economic, competitiveness, and resilience considerations in the design and implementation of regulations, the aims of the renewed Regulators’ Capacity Fund are to:
  
The Regulators’ Capacity Fund is overseen by the Centre for Regulatory Innovation, within the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat’s Regulatory Affairs Sector. As part of the Government’s broader regulatory modernization agenda, the Centre promotes a federal regulatory framework that supports innovation and competitiveness.
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*enhance the capacity of regulators to accurately assess economic impacts of regulatory proposals, including impacts on competitiveness at sector and aggregate levels;
  
The Regulators’ Capacity Fund concluded at the end of March 31, 2022.  
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*enhance the capacity of regulators to design and administer regulations in a manner that accounts for economic and competitiveness impacts, within the context of their overall objectives; and,  
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*enhance the capacity of regulators to incorporate learnings from the ongoing pandemic response and adapt to rapidly-evolving regulatory landscapes to facilitate a system that is better equipped to mitigate future risks and respond to unanticipated developments, especially those related to climate change and public health.  
  
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The RCF supports departments and agencies in undertaking projects or initiatives, ranging in scope, that contribute to the enhancement of regulatory capacity. This involves supporting initiatives that would help regulators carry out their functions in a way that is conducive to economic growth. These initiatives would ultimately contribute to enhanced regulatory competitiveness in or beyond their respective sectors.
  
<span style="color: #000000"><big>'''Regulators’ Capacity Fund Projects'''</big></span> <br>
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=== Key Documents  ===
  
Projects selected to receive funding under the Regulators’ Capacity Fund fall primarily under one of two groups based on how they support regulatory capacity for competitiveness:
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*[https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gccollab.ca%2Fimages%2Fe%2Fe1%2FCRI_Capacity_Fund_-_Project_Progress_Report_Template_-_EN.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK RCF Progress Report Template]
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*[https://view.officeapps.live.com/op/view.aspx?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gccollab.ca%2Fimages%2Fb%2Fbf%2FCRI_Capacity_Fund_-_Project_Final_Report_Template_-_EN.docx&wdOrigin=BROWSELINK RCF Final Report Template]
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*[[:en:images/1/12/RCF_Lessons_Learned_Report_2022_-_English_(Final).pdf|RCF Lessons Learned Report]]
  
:*Analysis-based (i.e. initiatives to enhance understanding of what needs to be done to improve the regime’s competitiveness, and to equip regulators with the relevant skills and information); and,
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===Current Projects===
:*Solutions-based (i.e. initiatives to implement solutions that would develop capacity to administer regulations in a more cost-effective manner, which in turn, enhances the regime’s competitiveness).
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[[:en:CRI_Supported_Projects|(Click here to see a list of completed RCF projects and the associated case studies)]]
  
 
The following are projects that were supported by the RCF.
 
The following are projects that were supported by the RCF.
 
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|Agriculture  and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
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|A plan to address Canada-specific data gaps on residue left over from drone-based pesticide  application
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|AAFC will lead a study to compare pesticide residue levels on crops applied using drones to traditional equipment that are approved for pesticide application. The results of the study will help determine the regulatory equivalency of drone-based applications to ground based and airplane-based applications to inform future  regulatory decision-making.
|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
 
|Exploring the Use of Technology to Streamline Exploration to Production for Mining
 
|The current approval process for mining projects is complex and inefficient, with the resulting burden having significant negative impact on industry and challenging the delivery of the regulatory regime. This project involves undertaking various activities in order to identify a digital tool that would streamline the approvals process for mining projects, followed by implementation and adoption of the identified tool.
 
 
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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Competition Bureau
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|Health Canada (HC)
|[https://www.canada.ca/en/competition-bureau/news/2020/08/competition-bureau-launches-toolkit-to-help-policymakers-strengthen-competition-in-canadas-economy.html Competition Assessment Toolkit]
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|Access Consortium - Multinational Real-time collaboration for Health Regulators
|After developing a prototype competition assessment toolkit that would enable regulators to assess the potential impacts their regulatory proposals would have on competition, the Competition Bureau will hold a workshop and targeted sessions to solicit feedback from regulators and revise the toolkit accordingly.
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|As  part of the Access Consortium Project, five countries - Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland and United Kingdom review drug applications  independently, and share files to collaborate. As regulators are repeating  others’ work and due to differences in cloud policies of every country, this  is done in a nonsynchronous way at this time. HC is aiming to further develop  a proof-of-concept prototype that will allow all five international partners  to collaborate and share information in a secure manner real-time.
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| Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED)
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|Health Canada (HC)
|Centralized Service for Enabling Regulators to Issue and Consume Digital Credentials
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|Food and Drug Industry Data Tools
| The project would establish a prototype centralized service for issuing and verifying digital credentials and test it with regulators and businesses. Findings would help to inform future work on Canada’s Digital Trust Infrastructure, such as piloting the centralized service for issuing and verifying digital credentials across regulatory regimes.
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|Health  Canada is aiming to facilitate the preparation of additionally robust and defensible cost-benefit analysis. The project seeks to maximize its insights  into material impacts on subsectors of HC’s industrial stakeholders by fully leveraging StatsCan’s Business Registry and developing a data collection tool  (survey) to fill gaps in information that are identified as still outstanding.
 
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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
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|Health Canada (HC)
|Using Conformity Assessment to Test AI
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|Willingness to Pay framework
|SCC will lay the groundwork for a prototype SCC-accredited third-party conformity assessment program to test artificial intelligence in Canada by securing partnerships with stakeholders (i.e. regulators, SME AI developers, and Conformity Assessment Bodies) and developing prototype requirements.
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|HC proposes to develop a framework by which to obtain the costs of collection of  Canadian’s willingness to pay for the benefits of regulations to obtain  additional valuable data for cost-benefit analysis. In preparing complex  regulations it is often easier to collect and monetize the costs to regulated  parties than the benefits to the public.
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|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
|Building Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) Capacity in the Government of Canada
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|Streamlining the economic analysis requirements of the Canadian impact assessment process
|This project involves developing advanced-level cost-benefit analysis (CBA) training (i.e. developing a CBA certificate program in partnership with an academic institution) as well as developing a plan to guide the implementation of a CBA recruitment and retention strategy for the Government of Canada.
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|NRCan and the Impact  Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) propose to lead an interdepartmental  working group to develop guidance for project proponents regarding  requirements and coordinate Government of Canada (GoC) review of the economic  analysis under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) and Information and Management  of Time Limits Regulations.
 
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|Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
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|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
|Support to enable improved costing of nuclear regulations and increase internal regulations costing capability
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|Mining activity tool to help permits for mining projects
|This project involves undertaking a detailed costing study of an ongoing regulatory review and associated guidance, followed by the development of tools and training to help CNSC staff establish internal costing expertise.
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|NRCan proposes to  investigate the use of Rules as Code (RaC) to develop guidance material to help the mining industry navigate the permitting process. This guidance  material needs to be developed in an automated way, be always up to date, consistent, accurate, and maintained with minimal effort.
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|Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
 
|Third-party Evaluation of the CNSC’s Regulatory Framework’s Readiness to Accept a License Application for a Fusion Reactor
 
|This project involves enlisting external support in order to review the CNSC’s regulatory framework and assess its readiness for fusion technology. If successful, this work would help CNSC successfully receive and process license applications for fusion reactors.
 
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|Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)
 
|Online Resolution Platform
 
|By implementing an online dispute resolution platform, this project will support timely, efficient, and cost-effective compliance and enforcement for both regulators and regulated entities under the new Pay Equity regime.
 
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|Transport Canada (TC)
 
|Transport Canada (TC)
|Cumulative Regulatory Impact Analysis (CRIA) and Portal
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|Expanding operational  capabilities of Canadian air operators in winter weather conditions
|This project involves developing and implementing a cumulative regulatory impact analysis framework to analyze the impact of transportation regulations on different industry sectors; this could ultimately support the establishment of an online portal that would make information on cumulative regulatory impact publicly available and searchable.
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|This project proposed by TC aims to identify and leverage best practices from other jurisdictions such as the US and Europe to improve aviation requirements where the operational capabilities of Canadian air operators could be safely expanded in winter conditions to increase international alignment and competitiveness. This includes improving TC’s regulatory guidance through an informed and data-driven  policy.
 
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|Building a Canadian Framework for Vehicle Cyber  Security Requirements to Support Alignment with International Regulations
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|TC is aiming to develop a vehicle cyber security certification framework to support industry in demonstrating compliance with vehicle technical requirements that is  aligned internationally. Compared to Europe and Asia, the US and Canada have a self-certification model and deeply integrated of supply chains. As TC does not have dedicated vehicle cyber security authorities, a framework will help  with future regulatory decision-making process.
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|Transport Canada (TC)
 
|Transport Canada (TC)
|Establishing novel testing methodologies to evaluate the safety of new vehicle technologies and support road safety regulatory design
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|Road Safety and Vehicle Regulations
|To inform future regulation-development around new vehicle technologies, such as connected and automated vehicle safety technologies, this project would develop virtual simulation-based testing to assess new validation methods for emerging vehicle technologies, conduct physical testing of advanced vehicle technologies.
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|TC is proposing a pilot study to demonstrate and validate a new approach using virtual test platforms required for motor vehicle safety oversight. As Automated Driving Systems vehicles are evolving from traditional mechanical systems to software centric platforms, novel approaches to safety oversight are required. Starting with the digitalization of real-world driving environments, computer simulation test tools for automated vehicles will be examined to verify the accuracy of manufacturer’s test results for regulatory decision-making  purposes.
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
 
| Developing Foresight Capabilities Activities
 
| This project entails a suite of complementary activities to support capacity-building on foresight analysis within ECCC. This includes training of policy analysts, conducting a review of policy guidance documents to identify and incorporate foresight considerations throughout the policy cycle, and conducting applied hands-on foresight exercises with program areas.
 
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
 
| Regulatory Discovery Tool
 
| The project aims to develop and implement a Regulatory Discovery Tool to improve access to information on federal regulations. This involves conducting consultations to identify the needs of regulators and stakeholders, identifying and collecting regulatory metadata, and ultimately developing a public-facing, web-based, searchable Tool.
 
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
 
|National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) – Bulk Upload and Data Verification Tool
 
|The NPRI collects and publishes information on releases, disposals and transfers of over 320 pollutants from over 7,500 facilities across Canada. This project will allow facility owners or operators to submit their data more rapidly, efficiently, and accurately by developing an alternative to the presently required manual data entry. Specifically, this project involves developing a tool that would enable the submission of all data points in one file as well as provide quality control verification.
 
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
 
|Environmental Data is Accessible Timely, Useable, and Managed (EDATUM) – Business Case
 
|ECCC will develop the business case for a broader project which aims to create multiple operational solutions including a Document Portal to enable electronic regulatory reporting and document submission for all submissions to ECCC.
 
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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
|Biogas Regulatory Navigation Study
 
|The project involves researching the regulatory barriers impacting agricultural biogas project development, highlighting necessary guidance or regulatory alignment needs, and identifying potential tools to aid SMEs in navigating regulations to enable them to achieve environmental and economic goals. It will also clarify if there is a role for the federal government to create a Pan-Canadian regulatory pathway for the agricultural biogas sector.
 
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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
| Co-Development Approach to Seed Regulatory Modernization
 
|This project seeks to co-develop modernized seed regulations from consensus-based, impartial recommendations derived from discussions with stakeholders, as well as accurately assess the cumulative economic impacts of the regulatory amendments.
 
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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
|Plant Breeders’ Rights Act/UPOV’91 Impact Study
 
|This project involves researching and quantifying the economic benefits derived from a strengthened intellectual property environment and greater opportunities for access to new plant varieties created by legislative amendments to Canada’s Plant Breeders’ Rights Act, which strengthened intellectual property  protection to conform to the 1991 Act of the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV’91).
 
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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)
 
|Regulatory Standardization and Rules as Code Research Project
 
|This project will analyze ECCC’s regulations and regulatory reports to develop a template and methodology for new regulations and associated reporting requirements with the intent of standardizing terminology and requirements. It will also develop criteria to determine which regulations are suitable for rules as code (RAC) and ways to incorporate RAC principles in the drafting of regulations.
 
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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) /Standards Council of Canada (SCC)
 
|Modernizing the Monitoring Standards in Regulation Tool
 
|This project involves designing a modernized tool to monitor standards referenced in federal regulations, increase the capacity of regulators to access these standards, and help address the issue of outdated references to standards.
 
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|National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
 
|Performance-Based Codes
 
|Through a targeted engagement with the research community, the code development community, and the engineering community, this project will identify knowledge gaps and perform research to investigate the feasibility and inform the decisions on the development and introduction of a new performance-based compliance path in the future editions of the National Building Code.
 
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|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
 
|Risk-based Inspection Planning Web Application
 
|To support the administration of the compliance inspection and restoration program under the Explosives Act administered by NRCan, this project will develop an inspection planning web application to create more efficient workflows, increase regulatory transparency, and ensure that regulations do not impede competitiveness of stakeholder industries.
 
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|Health Canada (HC)
 
|Analyzing Incentive Models to Support Pediatric Medicine Development and Submission to Canada
 
|This project seeks to analyze the success and/or gaps of Canada’s existing pediatric incentives provided under Section C.08.004.1 of the Food and Drug Regulations (FDR), in order to inform the development of new incentive models that will be used to support the implementation of a new pediatric provision in the FDR. To supplement this work, this project also strives to obtain industry feedback and insights on incentive models that would be meaningful to them.
 
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|Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC)
 
|Evaluation of Potential Safety Cases on the Use of Artificial Intelligence Safety Cases in the Canadian Nuclear Industry
 
|This project involves contracting expert advisory services to develop an Artificial Intelligence Action Plan, following review of:
 
- the information required for the demonstration of a safety case for the use of AI in licensed nuclear activities; and <br>
 
- evaluation of the potential challenges for effective regulatory oversight.
 
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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
|Plant Breeders’ Rights Act/UPOV’91 Legal Analysis
 
| This project seeks to conduct a benchmarking legal study and analysis examining the plant breeders’ rights legislation of other countries who are contracting parties to the International Convention for the Protection of New Varieties of Plants (UPOV).
 
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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
|Analysis of Regulatory and Non-Regulatory Barriers to Domestic Red Meat Trade in Canada
 
|This project seeks to analyze regulatory and non-regulatory challenges to domestic trade of red meat in Canada with a view to informing a path forward to enhance economic growth opportunities in that sector. This would support the long-term objective of enhancing trade without compromising food safety or international trade opportunities and obligations.
 
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| Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)
 
|Analysis of Global Systems that Enable Domestic Meat Trade
 
|This project seeks to analyze relevant international regulatory systems (United States, European Union, Australia, etc.) containing features or programs which facilitate domestic trade of red meat. The purpose of the exercise would be to identify the key factors and their applicability to the Canadian context and to support the long-term objective of enhancing domestic trade without compromising food safety or international trade opportunities and obligations.
 
 
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Deadline
The RCF funding envelope that was available until March 2025 has been exhausted in the previous call-out (summer 2023). Thank you for your interest

Overview

The Regulators’ Capacity Fund (RCF) responds to calls from Canada’s business community, which has been vocal in its desire for regulators to give increased weight to economic and competitiveness considerations in the development and enforcement of regulations. From 2020-2025, the RCF supported 37 projects with over $14.2 million in funding.  

To help regulators improve their capacity to incorporate economic, competitiveness, and resilience considerations in the design and implementation of regulations, the aims of the renewed Regulators’ Capacity Fund are to:

  • enhance the capacity of regulators to accurately assess economic impacts of regulatory proposals, including impacts on competitiveness at sector and aggregate levels;
  • enhance the capacity of regulators to design and administer regulations in a manner that accounts for economic and competitiveness impacts, within the context of their overall objectives; and,  
  • enhance the capacity of regulators to incorporate learnings from the ongoing pandemic response and adapt to rapidly-evolving regulatory landscapes to facilitate a system that is better equipped to mitigate future risks and respond to unanticipated developments, especially those related to climate change and public health.  

The RCF supports departments and agencies in undertaking projects or initiatives, ranging in scope, that contribute to the enhancement of regulatory capacity. This involves supporting initiatives that would help regulators carry out their functions in a way that is conducive to economic growth. These initiatives would ultimately contribute to enhanced regulatory competitiveness in or beyond their respective sectors.

Key Documents  

Current Projects

(Click here to see a list of completed RCF projects and the associated case studies)

The following are projects that were supported by the RCF.

Department/Agency Project Title Project Description
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) A plan to address Canada-specific data gaps on residue left over from drone-based pesticide application AAFC will lead a study to compare pesticide residue levels on crops applied using drones to traditional equipment that are approved for pesticide application. The results of the study will help determine the regulatory equivalency of drone-based applications to ground based and airplane-based applications to inform future regulatory decision-making.
Health Canada (HC) Access Consortium - Multinational Real-time collaboration for Health Regulators As part of the Access Consortium Project, five countries - Australia, Canada, Singapore, Switzerland and United Kingdom review drug applications independently, and share files to collaborate. As regulators are repeating others’ work and due to differences in cloud policies of every country, this is done in a nonsynchronous way at this time. HC is aiming to further develop a proof-of-concept prototype that will allow all five international partners to collaborate and share information in a secure manner real-time.
Health Canada (HC) Food and Drug Industry Data Tools Health Canada is aiming to facilitate the preparation of additionally robust and defensible cost-benefit analysis. The project seeks to maximize its insights into material impacts on subsectors of HC’s industrial stakeholders by fully leveraging StatsCan’s Business Registry and developing a data collection tool (survey) to fill gaps in information that are identified as still outstanding.
Health Canada (HC) Willingness to Pay framework HC proposes to develop a framework by which to obtain the costs of collection of Canadian’s willingness to pay for the benefits of regulations to obtain additional valuable data for cost-benefit analysis. In preparing complex regulations it is often easier to collect and monetize the costs to regulated parties than the benefits to the public.
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Streamlining the economic analysis requirements of the Canadian impact assessment process NRCan and the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada (IAAC) propose to lead an interdepartmental working group to develop guidance for project proponents regarding requirements and coordinate Government of Canada (GoC) review of the economic analysis under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) and Information and Management of Time Limits Regulations.
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) Mining activity tool to help permits for mining projects NRCan proposes to investigate the use of Rules as Code (RaC) to develop guidance material to help the mining industry navigate the permitting process. This guidance material needs to be developed in an automated way, be always up to date, consistent, accurate, and maintained with minimal effort.
Transport Canada (TC) Expanding operational capabilities of Canadian air operators in winter weather conditions This project proposed by TC aims to identify and leverage best practices from other jurisdictions such as the US and Europe to improve aviation requirements where the operational capabilities of Canadian air operators could be safely expanded in winter conditions to increase international alignment and competitiveness. This includes improving TC’s regulatory guidance through an informed and data-driven policy.
Transport Canada (TC) Building a Canadian Framework for Vehicle Cyber Security Requirements to Support Alignment with International Regulations TC is aiming to develop a vehicle cyber security certification framework to support industry in demonstrating compliance with vehicle technical requirements that is aligned internationally. Compared to Europe and Asia, the US and Canada have a self-certification model and deeply integrated of supply chains. As TC does not have dedicated vehicle cyber security authorities, a framework will help with future regulatory decision-making process.
Transport Canada (TC) Road Safety and Vehicle Regulations TC is proposing a pilot study to demonstrate and validate a new approach using virtual test platforms required for motor vehicle safety oversight. As Automated Driving Systems vehicles are evolving from traditional mechanical systems to software centric platforms, novel approaches to safety oversight are required. Starting with the digitalization of real-world driving environments, computer simulation test tools for automated vehicles will be examined to verify the accuracy of manufacturer’s test results for regulatory decision-making purposes.

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