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Tag: infrastructure
Municipalities & Climate Emergency Declaration Movement
Presentation by legal summer student Michelle LaFortune on the the Climate Emergency Declaration Movement.
Natural Infrastructure is an Integral Part of a Green Recovery
Letter to PM detailing recommendations for short- and medium-term investment in natural infrastructure as an integral part of Canada’s recovery from the COVID crisis and its long-term resilience to climate change.
Letter on Legal Exemptions in Building Transit Faster Act and Environmental Assessment Regulations
Richard Lindgren writes that the Bill unnecessarily removes important accountability and legal process rights to facilitate transit projects in the GTA. Proposed changes to environmental assessment regulations also weaken public accountability.
Proposed Changes to Drainage Act
Comments from Anastasia Lintner, CELA special projects counsel with the Healthy Great Lakes program, on these proposed changes.
Provincial Policy Statement Review
CELA responded to the Provincial Policy Statement Review. Consultation posted here: ERO #019-0279
Download CELA’s response here: PPS-Review019-0279-Response-from-CELA
CELA also collaborated on a response from seventeen National, Provincial, and Regional organizations and sixty-three Local organizations
Download group response here: PPS-Review019-0279-Response-over-80-groups