Background Q&A- How Bill C-45 weakens our environmental laws and democracy (PDF; November 2012)
West Coast Environmental Law Legal Backgrounder – Bill C-43: A threat to environmental safety and democracy (PDF; December 2014)
Strong Environmental Laws Report Card on Bill C-38 and Supporting Legal Analysis (June 2012)
West Coast Environmental Law & Ecojustice: Top 10 Environmental Concerns of the 2012 Budget Bill (May 2012) / French version: Ce que signifie le projet de loi C38 pour l’environnement (May 2012)
What Would Remain? CEAA 2012 Analysis by Professor Robert B. Gibson (working draft) (May 2012)
A Checklist for Strong Environmental Laws (February 2012)
Tyee Solutions Society, Bottom Lines: A Quarter-Century Report on Canada's Natural Security (Website)
West Coast Environmental Law and the Quebec Environmental Law Center, Canada's Track Record on Environmental Laws, 2011-2015 (October 2015) (version française ici).
West Coast Environmental Law, How will Canada's next government protect our environment? Comparing federal party positions on environmental laws (October, 2015).
Submissions on federal Environmental Assessment Review
Submissions on Bill C-38
Submissions on Bill C-45
West Coast Environmental Law Submission to House of Commons Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on Division 21 of Budget Bill C-45 (PDF; November 2012)
West Coast Environmental Law Submission to the Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources regarding Omnibus Bill C-45 (PDF; November 2012)
Open letter to MPs regarding Bill C-45 (PDF; November 2012)
Canadian Environmental Law Association's Legal Analysis and Letter to the PM regarding the Standing Committee Report (March 2012)
Submissions on CEAA 2012
West Coast Environmental Law Submission on CEAA Regulations August 2012 (PDF; August 2012)
ENGO submissions on CEAA 2012 Project List Regulations (PDF; August 2012)
Submissions on the Fisheries Act
First Nations Leadership Council: Open Letter on Changes to Fisheries Act
West Coast Environmental Law: Submission to DFO Re: Proposed Regulations Establishing Conditions for Making Regulations under Subsection 36(5.2) of the Fisheries Act, published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, February 15, 2014 (the Regulations) (PDF; March 2014)
West Coast Environmental Law: Submission to DFO Re: Proposed Aquaculture Activities Regulations published in the Canada Gazette, Part I, Vol. 148, No. 34 (the Regulations) (PDF; September 2014)
West Coast Environmental Law Association, Telephone Town Hall on what the rolling back of Canada's environmental laws means for oil tankers and the health and security of BC's coast (Audio File, June 2015)
West Coast Environmental Law Association Presentation - Gutting Canada's Environmental Laws: Changes to federal environmental legal protection in 2012 bills C-38 and C-45 (PDF; January 2015)
West Coast Environmental Law Association, EnviroLawsMatter Brief (PDF; 2015)
A Checklist for Strong Environmental Laws (PDF; February 2012)
West Coast Environmental Law, Myths and Realities on the 2012 Federal Budget (March 29, 2012)
Background Q&A- How Bill C-45 weakens our environmental laws and democracy (PDF; November 2012)
Top 10 Environmental Concerns of the 2012 Budget Bill (PDF; May 2012) / French version Ce que signifie le projet de loi C38 pour l’environnement (PDF; May 2012)
Strong Environmental Laws Report Card on Bill C-38 and Supporting Legal Analysis (PDF; June 2012)
Ecojustice blog and backgrounders: Why environmental law is good for the economy and the planet (March 2012)
Ecojustice Environmental Hansard - a collection of all House of Commons discussions and debates about Canada’s environment.
Energy Framework Initiative, Letter to Minister of Environment Peter Kent and Minister of Natural Resources Joe Oliver (December 2011)
Please visit the following sites for resources and background information:
Bill C-634, An Act to Establish a Canadian Bill of Environmental Rights, 2nd Sess, 41st Parl, 2014
Ecojustice, Commentary on the Right to a Healthy Environment
David Suzuki Foundation, White papers on a right to a healthy environment
Ecojustice, The Right to a Healthy Environment: 9 Things Canadians Should Know (PDF; 2015)
Ecojustice, The Right to a Healthy Environment: Canada's Time to Act (PDF; 2014)
Andrew Gage, “Public Environmental Rights: A New Paradigm for Environmental Law?” (PDF; 2007)
Andrew Gage, West Coast Environmental Law, Climate change litigation and the public right to a healthy atmosphere (PDF; October 2014)
Andrew Gage, Special treatment for oil industry means poor environmental laws (West Coast Environmental Law blog post; May 2012)
Andrew Gage, West Coast Environmental Law, Climate change litigation and the public right to a healthy atmosphere (PDF; October 2014)
Andrew Gage and Michael Byers, Payback Time? What the internationalization of climate litigation could mean for Canadian oil and gas companies (October 2014)
Jessica Clogg and Josh Paterson, West Coast Environmental Law Legal Backgrounder Coastal First Nations Declaration and Save the Fraser Declaration (PDF; December 2012)
Anthony Swift et al, Pipeline and Tanker Trouble: The Impact to British Columbia’s Communities, Rivers, and Pacific Coastline from Tar Sands Oil Transport (PDF; November 2011)
West Coast Environmental Law, Map of BC First Nations declaring Indigenous Law bans on Enbridge and Kinder Morgan tankers and pipelines (February 2012)
West Coast Environmental Law, Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline – risks for downstream communities and fisheries (PDF; February 2012)
A. John Sinclair, Gary Schneider & Lisa Mitchell, "Environmental impact assessment process substitution: experiences of public participants," Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 30:2, 85-93 (2012).
A. John Sinclair & Lisa Quinn, "From Idea to Practice: Sustainable Development Efforts in Manitoba," Dalhousie Law Journal, 35-1 (2012)
Assessing the Smaller Projects: An Essential Step Toward Sustainability (March 2012)
Robert B. Gibson, "In full retreat: the Canadian government's new environmental assessment law undoes decades of progress," Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 30:3, 179-188 (2012).
West Coast Environmental Law Comments on Public Hearing and Confidentiality Procedures, New Prosperity Panel (PDF; September 2012)
Robert B. Gibson, What Would Remain? CEAA 2012 Analysis (working draft) (PDF; May 2012)
Environmental Assessment, Overlap, Duplication, Harmonization, Equivalency, and Substitution: Interpretation, Misinterpretation, and a Path Forward, by Arlene Kwasniak, Journal of Environmental Law and Practice, October, 2009
Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers: Regulatory Reform in Canada's Oil and Gas Sector: Meeting the Challenges of the 21st Century (December 2009)
Susanna D. Fuller, Ecology Action Centre: Synthesis of ENGO - DFO Workshop Recommendations from 2006-2009 on the delivery of Habitat Management Program by Fisheries and Oceans Canada (October 2010)
High Park Group: Industry-Identified Challenges with the Application of the Habitat Provisions of the Fisheries Act (November 2010)
West Coast Environmental Law: Gutting Canada's Fisheries Law - What the Changes Mean for Fish
West Coast Environmental Law: Offloading Fisheries to the Provinces (June 2012)
Ecojustice: Fisheries Act Backgrounder
West Coast blog: Fisheries Act amendments would be an attack on salmon (March 2012)
WWF-Canada blog: HADD enough? Keep habitat protection in the Federal Fisheries Act (March 2012)
Hutchings, J.A., and Post, J.R. 2013. “Gutting Canada's Fisheries Act: no fishery, no fish habitat protection,” Fisheries 38: 497-501 (2013)
Linda Nowlan and Anna Johnston, "Scaling up the Fisheries Act: Restoring lost protections and incorporating modern safeguards" (West Coast Environmental Law, March 2016)
We encourage you to choose the candidate in your riding with the strongest environmental platform who has the greatest likelihood of actually getting elected. Below are links to various groups providing polling, seat projections and other election information. Please note that we are completely non-partisan and provide the links solely to help you make an informed vote. The links are not intended to suggest an endorsement of or support for any positions taken on the sites.
- Three Hundred Eight – Includes riding-specific projections for all federal ridings
- Election Atlas – Includes riding-specific seat projections for all of Canada
- The Poll Tracker, by CBC and Three Hundred Eight.com analysts – Provides combined, weighted averaged data from all major public opinion polls
- Election Almanac – Provides polls, seat projections and information on candidates, riding history and more
- Dogwood Initiative – Provides riding-specific polling and candidate information for BC
Showing 1 reaction