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Canada has embraced sustainable development as a public
policy goal since the 1980s, and was an active participant in
the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(the Earth Summit) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. That meeting of
178 nations recommended that all countries produce strategies
for sustainable development.
In 1995 the federal government amended the Auditor General
Act to require federal departments to prepare sustainable
development strategies for tabling in the House of Commons
and to update them every three years. This legislation also
created the office of the Commissioner of the Environment and
Sustainable Development, who is responsible for monitoring
and reporting on federal progress toward sustainable
development.
The Department of Justice, along with other departments,
presented its first Sustainable Development Strategy in 1997.
This second Sustainable Development Strategy contains a
review of the Department's sustainable development
accomplishments from 1998 to 2000, under the first Strategy,
and describes the Department's sustainable development
commitments for the next three years.
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