Enter Electric Green GloFish: why Bill S-5 must protect nature from genetic pollution

The Canadian Environmental Protection Act, which has not been updated in over 20 years, does little to modernize the regulation of genetically engineered animals.
Nature Canada's Mark Butler writes he is pleased that Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault, pictured, has indicated he is open to changes to Bill S-5, an act to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act.
Genetic engineering is a powerful technology. We increasingly have the capacity to alter the inherited traits of not only humans, but of any species on the planet. There is promise in this technology, mostly for human health, but also peril. Recently, we saw exactly how things can go wrong. Twenty...

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