Related Initiatives and Planning Processes

Regulatory Reform

The ministry will support Government’s Regulatory Reform initiative by committing to controlling regulatory burden and improving regulatory quality by:

  • Identifying at least one regulatory reform opportunity that will shift the ministry’s regulations to be more citizen-centred, cost-effective, results-based, and responsive to our clients by reducing and/or streamlining the steps or business processes involved in complying with ministry regulations; and
  • Adhering to the regulatory criteria set out in the Regulatory Reform Policy, and targeting a zero per cent net increase in regulation through 2008/09.

The ministry is also improving the regulatory regime in British Columbia by:

  • working with the BC Competition Council to address regulatory competitiveness issues;
  • leading the province's participation in the Council of the Federation's internal trade initiative to accelerating the harmonization of standards and regulations;
  • leading a comprehensive trade, investment and labour mobility initiative with Alberta to improve trade, investment or labour mobility in or between the two provinces; and
  • working with regulatory organizations responsible for credential assessment to set policy standards and targets to increase the number of persons assessed and reduce the time to complete assessment of credentials of persons trained abroad.

Information Resource Management Plan

The Ministry’s Information Resource Management Plan overview is available at: http://www.ecdev.gov.bc.ca/serviceplan/irmp.html.

Citizen-Centred Service Delivery

The ministry uses a citizen-centred approach and works to ensure that the government programs and services it provides is responsive to the needs of its stakeholders as well as for British Columbians as a whole. For example, the ministry works with major industry investors by clarifying regulatory requirements needed for the project to proceed and by providing an initial single contact point where more than one regulatory agency is involved.

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