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West Coast goes to Ottawa to talk about how the Omnibus Bill will harm Canada
Thursday, June 14, 2012On May 31, 2012, I travelled to Ottawa, on behalf of West Coast Environmental Law Association, to speak in person about the budget bill’s attack on nature and democracy to the...
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Will Bill C-38 offload fisheries to the provinces?
Friday, June 15, 2012Bill C-38, the Budget Implementation Bill, with its various amendments to Canada’s environmental laws, is a complicated statute, with many long-term implications that have not been...
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Canada's Fisheries Act after Bill C-38
Wednesday, June 27, 2012Postmedia reporter, Mike DeSouza, has recently released several slides from Fisheries and Oceans Canada staff explaining how the current Canadian Fisheries Act is intended to...
View ArticleSix Questions for your MP about Bill C-38
Wednesday, June 27, 2012With Bill C-38 before the Senate, Members of Parliament (MPs) have gone home from Ottawa. There they will doubtless receive a warm welcome from their constituents, as well as...
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Environmental law is funny (really)
Thursday, November 1, 2012When asked in polls, a large majority of Canadians think that it’s important for BC and Canada to have strong environmental laws. The trouble is, when public interest...
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Living Democracy from the Ground Up: Why Local Voices Matter
Thursday, December 6, 2012Living Democracy from the Ground Up is a mini-documentary series produced by West Coast Environmental Law that takes an up close and personal look and the impacts that...
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The Smoking Gun: Who was the real author of the 2012 omnibus bills?
Friday, January 11, 2013Kudos to Greenpeace Canada for finding something of a smoking gun exposing the role of the oil and gas industry in the gutting of Canada’s environmental laws. Greenpeace has...
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Tell the Prime Minister - Fish need legal protection
Tuesday, June 18, 2013Among the most controversial elements of Bill C-38, passed a year ago (June 18th, 2012) was the decision to “take the guts out” of the Fisheries Act by abandoning long-standing...
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Getting to yes: A process for building Canada’s visionary new environmental...
Tuesday, March 22, 2016Last November, in a federally-unprecedented move, Prime Minister Trudeau made public his mandate letters to Canada’s new Cabinet. Among the important directives contained in...
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The “other” Bill C-38 – Fish habitat redux and lessons for today
Thursday, November 24, 2016Many Canadians who care about nature, democracy and Indigenous rights will recognize the name Bill C-38– the omnibus budget bill from 2012 that dramatically weakened...
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