Natural Resources Canada
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Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), is a department of the government of Canada responsible for natural resources, energy, minerals and metals, forests, earth sciences, mapping and remote sensing. Under the Canadian constitution, responsibility for natural resources belongs to the provinces, not the federal government, but the federal government has jurisdiction over off-shore resources, trade and commerce in natural resources, over statistics, over international relations, and over boundaries. Its involvement in natural resources goes back to the creation of the first Canadian government scientific entity by the Province of Canada in 1842.
The Minister of Natural Resources as of February 6, 2006 is Gary Lunn.
The department is governed by the Resources and Technical Surveys Act, R.S.C., c.R-7 and the Department of Natural Resources Act, S.C. 1994, c. 41.
Sectors
- Canadian Forest Service
- Earth Sciences Sector
- *Geological Survey of Canada
- *Geomatics Canada
- **Canada Centre for Remote Sensing
- **Atlas of Canada
- **Legal Surveys Division
- *Polar Continental Shelf Project
- Energy Policy Sector
- *Electricity Resources Branch
- **Nuclear Energy Division
- **Uranium and Radioactive Waste Division
- **Renewable and Electrical Energy Division
- **Energy Infrastructure Protection Division
- Energy Technology and Programs Sector
- Mineral and Metals Sector
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