ABSTRACT
The relationship between SEA and land use planning in Canada takes a number of forms and plays out at different levels. It encompasses formal and informal approaches to SEA, although none is strictly comparable with the procedural framework laid down in the European SEA Directive or in US federal and Californian legislation (Chapters 2 and 16). Formal provision for the SEA of policy, plans and programmes (PPPs) is made primarily at the federal level, where direct jurisdiction over land and resources is restricted to protected areas, the offshore zone and the north. Major responsibility for land use planning rests with ten provinces and three territories, some of which incorporate SEA elements informally in their decision making processes.
