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Public services in Canada are delivered by various levels of government, determined through responsibility enacted in the Constitution. Financing for those services is provided through tax receipts, sales revenues, user fees, and other government revenue sources.

Health care
Primary health care in Canada is a provincial responsibility. Funding for service delivery is provided via provincial income tax receipts and federal health transfers.

Education
Primary, secondary and tertiary education in Canada is the responsibility of each provincial government. The federal government department of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada delivers education service to First Nations.

Federal policing
The federal police is composed of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). Some of the RCMP's responsibilities include: enforcing federal laws, contributing to national security, maintaining peace and order, and providing services to other police and law enforcement agencies within Canada and abroad.

Provincial and territorial policing
The provincial and territorial Police are composed of The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) except in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, where the Sûreté du Québec and the Ontario Provincial Police, respectively, provide provincial police services.

The provincial police's responsibility is to enforce the Criminal Code and provincial laws where the municipal police do not enforce.

Municipal policing
The municipal police's responsibility is to enforce the Criminal Code, provincial laws, and municipal by-laws within their respective region of governance.

Drinking water regulations
The provincial and territorial governments ensure that clean and safe drinking water is delivered to the public. On the other hand, the municipal government is responsible for handling the majority of daily operations of treatment facilities with the exception of the first nations reserves, federal institutions, and federal lands which are looked after by the federal government.

Wastewater regulations
In order to regulate wastewater, all levels of government (federal, provincial and territorial, and municipal) have an impact on how wastewater is managed where the federal government covers federal lands and first nations reserves. The Wastewater Systems Effluent Regulations was created in 2012 to regulate the quality of fish bearing waters. This regulation applies throughout all provinces and in the territory of Yukon.

Waste management
All three levels of government are responsible for managing and reducing waste. Environment Canada states:

"Municipal governments are responsible for collecting and managing waste from homes for recycling, composting, and disposal, while provincial and territorial authorities are responsible for the approval, licensing and monitoring of waste management operations."

The Environmental Protection Act exists to mandate compliance and ensure that local municipalities' residential waste management and recycling services programs comply with the rules set out by the act. These municipalities still have the freedom to select the elements that compose their waste management program: curbside collection, depot drop-off, and pay-as-you-throw are some examples.

The federal government plays a role in waste management as well, but only on issues related to toxic substances, waste management on federal lands, nuclear waste, and transportation of hazardous waste.