Marginal note:Interim injunction

18. The Agency may apply to a judge of a court of competent jurisdiction for an interim injunction enjoining any person from contravening an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11, whether or not a prosecution has been instituted in respect of that contravention.

Marginal note:Recall order

• 19. (1) Where the Minister believes on reasonable grounds that a product regulated under an Act or provision that the Agency enforces or administers by virtue of section 11 poses a risk to public, animal or plant health, the Minister may, by notice served on any person selling, marketing or distributing the product, order that the product be recalled or sent to a place designated by the Minister.

• Marginal note:Contravention of recall order

  (2) Any person who contravenes a recall order referred to in subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding $50,000 or to a term of imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both.

• Marginal note:Notification of order

  (3) For greater certainty, a recall order is not a statutory instrument for the purposes of the Statutory Instruments Act, but no person shall be convicted of an offence under subsection (2) unless the person was notified of the order.

Marginal note:Federal-provincial agreements

20. The Minister may, with the approval of the Governor in Council given on the recommendation of the Minister of Finance, enter into an agreement with one or more provincial governments for the provision of services or the carrying out of activities within the responsibilities of the Agency, in common with those governments.

Marginal note:Object of agreements

21. The agreement referred to in section 20 may authorize the Minister, jointly with one or more provincial governments, to have a corporation incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act, the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act or an equivalent provincial statute, or to acquire shares or participate in any corporation, in order to implement the agreement.

Marginal note:Corporate business plan

• 22. (1) As soon as possible after the Agency is established and at least once every five years after that, the Agency must submit a corporate business plan to the Minister for approval and the Minister must table a copy of the plan in each House of Parliament on any of the first fifteen days on which that House is sitting after the Minister approves the plan.

• Marginal note:Contents of corporate business plan

  (2) The corporate business plan must include a statement of

  • (a) the Agency’s objectives for the period to which the plan relates and for each year in that period;

  • (b) the strategies that the Agency intends to use to achieve its objectives, including operational, financial and human resource strategies;

  • (c) the Agency’s expected performance over that period; and

  • (d) the Agency’s operating and capital budgets for each year of that period.

• Marginal note:Updating of corporate business plan

  (3) The Agency may update its corporate business plan in its annual report.