FRANCAIS Blog post by Ellen Schwartzel on November 24, 2018 Background: Ontario is about to lose its independent Environmental Commissioner, as part of cuts announced by the Ford government on November 15, 2018. The details were laid out in Bill 57, an omnibus…
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Title: Why the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario Matters: Legal Analysis of Schedule 15 of Bill 57 Resource Type: Report, Response to Consultation Content: CELA-Legal-Analysis-Bill-57 # of Pages: 17 Date authored: November 23, 2018 Author/s: Richard D. Lindgren Author Organization: Canadian…
FRANCAIS Blog post by Richard D. Lindgren, CELA Counsel, November 20, 2018 Ontario’s Finance Minister recently introduced Bill 57, which is omnibus legislation intended to implement the provincial government’s 2018 Fall Economic Statement. However, Bill 57 goes well beyond routine budgetary…
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Title: Joint Letter to Premier Ford re: Environmental Commissioner of Ontario: Bill 57 Resource Type: Letter Content: JointLetterPremier-ECO-Nov15,2018_0 # of Pages: 4 Date authored: November 15, 2018 Author/s: Theresa McClenaghan and 24 others Author Organization: CELA and 24 other organizations
Media Release FRANCAIS Nov 15 2018 Toronto – The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) reacted strongly to the Ontario government’s introduction of Bill 57, which proposes to wholly eliminate the independent Office of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario (ECO), and to…
Media Release Oct 30 2017 Toronto – According to a letter sent to the Premier by sixteen environmental, health and labour organizations, Bill 154, an Act to cut unnecessary red tape, currently before the Ontario Legislature threatens the health, safety and environment of…
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