Budget poison pill jeopardizes environment and democracy

The proposed changes to CEAA, buried deep within the 900-page Bill C-9, will undo the Supreme Court's precedent and eliminate improvements made to the act in 2003 that guarantee public consultation in environmental assessments. The changes would deliver a

VANCOUVER, B.C.—In a move that emulates the worst of U.S. legislative hijacking, the federal government gave opposition parties a poison pill that will force them to choose between the environment and an unwanted election. By introducing major amendments to Canada's environmental assessment...

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