For climate justice, put the law in the service of human dignity

The upcoming federal election should be an opportunity to ask all political party leaders to take a stand against the unfair investor-state dispute settlement system that allows foreign investors to sue states, but not the other way around.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured June 8, and his government should come out against the use of investor-state dispute settlements, which is an unacceptable and unjust system, write eight lawyers and law professors. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY MICHEL BéLANGER, BERNARD COLAS, PAUL FAUTEUX, DAVID GOODERHAM, SABAA KHAN, KONSTANTIA KOUTOUKI, RICHARD LINDGREN, AND DANIEL TURP

June 11, 2021

The 2021 G7 Summit opens on June 11, less than a week after World Environment Day (June 5). On May 21, G7 climate and environment ministers acknowledged...

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