Risky Business is a comprehensive look at Canada's science-based
policy and regulatory regime. It asks what risks Canadians might be
exposed to as fiscal pressures strain the capacity of regulators in
areas such as food, drugs, pesticides, fisheries, and the
environment.
The first part of this book focuses the reader's attention on
diverse and major themes and issues that pervade science-based
regulatory regimes today. The second part suggests a framework for
analysis and endeavours to present both sympathetic and critical
perspectives on the inner-workings of regulatory departments and
agencies in the area of the protection of human and environmental
health and safety.
Covering such topics as the organizational evolution of
regulatory agencies, regulatory bodies' changing sources and levels
of funding, a review of the independence of science, and the
increased potential for realization of risk, these essays point to
the need for these regulators to operate with openness and
accessibility in order to maintain public confidence. Indeed, the
contributors argue that this openness is crucial to both democratic
governance and the development of innovative knowledge
economies.
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