Federal Sustainable Development Act

Marginal note:Designated entities

• 11 (1) Within one year after a Federal Sustainable Development Strategy is tabled in a House of Parliament under subsection 10(2), every designated entity other than a designated entity referred to in section 12 shall

  • (a) prepare a sustainable development strategy that

    • (i) contains objectives and plans for the designated entity,

    • (ii) complies with the Federal Sustainable Development Strategy and contributes to the meeting of its goals,

    • (iii) takes into account the designated entity’s mandate,

    • (iv) takes into account any of the applicable policies or directives of the Treasury Board that are established or issued under section 10.1, and

    • (v) takes into account comments made under subsections 9(3) or (4); and

  • (b) provide the sustainable development strategy to the appropriate Minister with respect to the designated entity.

• Marginal note:Tabling in each House of Parliament

  (2) The appropriate Minister shall cause the sustainable development strategy to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the appropriate Minister receives it.

• Marginal note:Report

  (3) The designated entity shall, at least once in each of the two years following the tabling of its sustainable development strategy in a House of Parliament under subsection (2), provide the appropriate Minister with a report on its progress in implementing the sustainable development strategy. The appropriate Minister shall cause the report to be tabled in each House of Parliament on any of the first 15 days on which that House is sitting after the appropriate Minister receives it.