Athabasca oil sands. Photo by Kris Krug. Last week, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson announced long-awaited reforms to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), one of Canada’s core pieces of environmental legislation, which deals primarily with the regulation of harmful substances, air pollution, and marine pollution. These
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Canadian Dimension: Canada’s duty to consult: A legal veneer for colonialism?
The duty to consult has been at the heart of a number of important legal cases in Canada, but it is skewed toward colonialist justifications for capitalist extraction instead of Indigenous self-determination. Photo by Joel Angel Juarez/Zuma Press/PA Images. More than 15 years after the duty to consult and accommodate
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