Canada’s parliament is in the final staging of passing updates to Canada’s principal environmental law, including legal recognition of a right to a healthy environment.
Ontario Youth Climate Action Case Survives Motion to Dismiss, Headed for Trial
The lawsuit alleges Ontario’s provincial government, under the leadership of Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford, violated the s. 7 (life, liberty and security of the person) and s. 15 (equal protection) Charter rights of the plaintiffs and future generations when it cancelled Ontario’s cap and trade program and adopted a new, less-ambitious climate plan as compared with the previous government’s.