Canada’s Environmental Laws: Time for Some Progressive Change
September 1, 2017
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Wildlands Advocate Article by Joanna Skrajny, Conservation Specialist
Canada’s environmental laws and regulations are no stranger to change. Too often, as Professor Arlene Kwasniak argued in the October 2011 issue of WLA, the seriousness with which the federal government takes its environmental assessment responsibilities has been in retreat. In 2012 the Harper government made further changes to Canada’s environmental assessment regime that affirmed, if not accelerated, that retreat (see April 2012 WLA, 26). Change is again on the horizon for Canada’s environmental laws and regulations. The question that remains is whether the federal Liberal government will be making good ones that improve the quality of the environmental assessment process.
