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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:

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:

:* 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,

:*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,

:* 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).

:*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).

The following are projects that were supported by the RCF.

The following are projects that were supported by the RCF.

|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

|Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)

|Exploring the Use of Technology to Streamline Exploration to Production for Mining

|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.

|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

|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Competition Bureau

|[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]

|[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]

| 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.

|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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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED)

|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED)

|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.

|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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|Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

| Innovation Science and Economic Development (ISED) – Standards Council of Canada (SCC)

|Using Conformity Assessment to Test AI

|Using Conformity Assessment to Test AI

|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.

|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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|Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)

|Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC)

|Online Resolution Platform

| 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.

|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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|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.

|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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|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

| Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

|Developing Foresight Capabilities Activities

|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.

| 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)

|Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC)

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|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

|Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC)

|Plant Breeders’ Rights Act/UPOV’91 Impact Study

| 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).

|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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|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.

|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)

| Health Canada (HC)

|Analyzing Incentive Models to Support Pediatric Medicine Development and Submission to Canada

|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.

|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.