Proposed Amendments to Bill S-5, An Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

October 4, 2022
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Bill C-28, an Act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (“CEPA,1999”) was tabled for First Reading in Parliament on April 13, 2021. The Bill died on the order paper due to the intervening 2021 federal election but was re-introduced in the Senate of Canada in February 2022 as Bill S-5 in furtherance of Prime Ministerial mandate letters, and passed by the Senate on June 22, 2022. The Bill was introduced in the House of Commons last week and has passed first reading

CELA has made several recommendations which are reformulated as amendments to Bill S-5 in a document called Proposed Amendments Submitted to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on Bill S-5, An Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, etc.

Prepared by:
Joseph F. Castrilli, CELA Counsel
Fe de Leon, CELA Researcher

CELA Publication No. 1496

To download CELA’s Proposed Amendments click here.

This document is a companion document to CELA’s Submissions to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable on Bill S-5, An Act to Amend the Candian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Proposed Amendments to Bill S-5, An Act to Amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

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