Download or read book Government of Canada Seeks to Modernize the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Enshrine a Right to a Healthy Environment for All Canadians written by Steven Guilbeault and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cleaner Greener Healthier written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite Canada’s enduring image as a natural paradise, every year thousands of Canadians become ill or die prematurely as a result of exposure to environmental hazards. Canadians understand that their health is inextricably linked to the health of the environment and are deeply concerned about the impacts of toxic substances on themselves and their children. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets out to remedy Canada’s environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution along racial and socio-economic lines, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canadian environmental laws and policies with those in the United States, Australia, and the European Union, delivering a provocative diagnosis of the root causes of Canada’s second-rate standards. Finally, drawing on strategies that protect citizens in other countries, Boyd prescribes legal remedies that will enable Canada to catch up with the world’s environmental leaders while delivering substantial health and economic benefits.
Download or read book The Right to a Healthy Environment written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada has abundant natural wealth -- beautiful landscapes, vast forests, and thousands of rivers and lakes. The land defines Canadians as a people, yet the country has one of the worst environmental records in the industrialized world. Building on his previous book, The Environmental Rights Revolution (2012), David R. Boyd, one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, describes how recognizing the constitutional right to a healthy environment could have a transformative impact by empowering citizens, holding governments and industry accountable, and improving Canada’s green record. The overwhelming majority of the world’s nations now recognize environmental rights through laws, constitutions, treaties, or court decisions. Boyd explores Canada’s history of failed efforts to do the same within this international context and offers three pathways to constitutional recognition of the right to a healthy environment. This important and provocative book provides a blueprint for renewed leadership in protecting human health, the well-being of the planet, and the interests of future generations.
Download or read book You Say You Want an Environmental Rights Revolution written by Jason MacLean and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The well-intentioned argument for constitutionalizing the right to a healthy environment in the Charter is misconceived legally, politically, and as a matter of progressive environmental strategy. Arguments for constitutionalizing environmental rights unjustifiably privilege and assign causal efficacy to the constitution's text, and exaggerate the transformative potential of case-by-case litigation. Moreover, proposals for top-down constitutional amendment pay insufficient attention to the bottom-up normative foundations that generate effective policies. Not only do arguments in favour of establishing a Charter right to a healthy environment either grossly underestimate or ignore altogether the political price tag of such a constitutional amendment, they likewise ignore the irony inherent in the proposal itself - would that it were politically possible to reach “7/50” and entrench the right to a healthy environment in the Charter, such an amendment would hardly be necessary in the first place, for the same political will would already be reflected in progressive federal and provincial environmental laws and policies.In the short and mostly regrettable history of Canadian environmental law, however, governments have generally been unwilling to pursue environmental protection save for brief periods of exceptional public concern. As a matter of policy, scholars should concentrate on the bottom-up drivers of greater public engagement in polycentric environmental governance. An emerging body of research suggests that advocates focus on communicating the economic development and community resilience co-benefits of pursuing climate change mitigation and sustainability policies.
Download or read book Canada s Green Plan written by Canada and published by Hull, Quebec : Environment Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of goals and key initiatives -- Canada's green plan and you -- Canada's green plan and the economy -- Canada's green plan and your health.
Download or read book Canada s Green Plan in Brief written by Canada and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This summary of Canada's Green Plan describes the targets and schedules which the government hopes will reduce chemical wastes, and encourage environmental initiatives in air, water, and land. It briefly examines the various renewable resource industries (forests, agriculture, and fisheries) and the ways in which a viable environmental policy will ensure their survival. The Plan also looks at environmental issues which are more international in scope, namely, global warming, acid rain, ozone depletion, environmental emergencies.
Download or read book Healthy Environment Healthy Canadians Healthy Economy written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, HEALTHY CANADIANS, HEALTHY ECONOMY: STRENGTHENING THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ACT, 1999 Report of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Deborah Schulte Chair JUNE 2017 42nd PARLIAMENT, 1st SESSION Published under the authority of the Speaker of the House of Commons SPEAKER'S PERMISSION Reproduction of the proceedings of the House of Commo [...] CEPA declares "that the protection of the environment is essential to the well-being of Canadians and that the primary purpose of this Act is to contribute to sustainable development through pollution prevention."1 Significantly, the focus of the Act is on pollution prevention from both a human and an environmental perspective with the Act implicating both the Minister of Environment and Climate C [...] The Committee reviewed the administration of the original CEPA in 1995 and made 141 recommendations,8 which led to the enactment of the current version of CEPA in 1999. [...] Recommendation 7 The Committee recommends that section 9 of CEPA be amended to strengthen the criteria for the establishment of administrative agreements and enhance monitoring and reporting of the performance of entities that enter into such agreements with the Minister. [...] Moffet of Environment and Climate Change Canada testified that the department has been implementing the "equivalent in effect" test for the past 15 years; however, the related wording in CEPA is ambiguous and could be clarified through an amendment.63 Industrial stakeholders, such as the Canadian Fuels Association, were generally supportive both of the use of equivalency agreements and of the gove.
Download or read book Cleaner Greener Healthier written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadians are getting sick from toxins in the air, food, water, and consumer products. In Cleaner, Greener, Healthier, David R. Boyd sets out to remedy Canada's environmental health problems. He begins by assessing the environmental burden of disease, identifies its unequal distribution, and estimates the associated economic costs. He then compares Canada's environmental laws and policies with those in the US, Australia, and the EU, delivering a provocative diagnosis of the causes of Canada's second-rate standards. Finally, he prescribes legal remedies that will enable Canada to catch up with the world's environmental leaders while delivering substantial health and economic benefits.
Download or read book Using the Canadian Environmental Protection Act to Control Air Pollution Protect Significant Areas and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right to a Healthy Environment written by Canada. Environment Canada and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Environmental Protection Act written by Canada. Environment Canada and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Environmental Protection Act commentary written by Meinhard Doelle and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Environmental Protection Act and Commentary written by Meinhard Doelle and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Right to a Healthy Environment written by David Richard Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enforcing Canada s Pollution Laws written by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada Volume One Summary written by Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the Final Report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its six-year investigation of the residential school system for Aboriginal youth and the legacy of these schools. This report, the summary volume, includes the history of residential schools, the legacy of that school system, and the full text of the Commission's 94 recommendations for action to address that legacy. This report lays bare a part of Canada's history that until recently was little-known to most non-Aboriginal Canadians. The Commission discusses the logic of the colonization of Canada's territories, and why and how policy and practice developed to end the existence of distinct societies of Aboriginal peoples. Using brief excerpts from the powerful testimony heard from Survivors, this report documents the residential school system which forced children into institutions where they were forbidden to speak their language, required to discard their clothing in favour of institutional wear, given inadequate food, housed in inferior and fire-prone buildings, required to work when they should have been studying, and subjected to emotional, psychological and often physical abuse. In this setting, cruel punishments were all too common, as was sexual abuse. More than 30,000 Survivors have been compensated financially by the Government of Canada for their experiences in residential schools, but the legacy of this experience is ongoing today. This report explains the links to high rates of Aboriginal children being taken from their families, abuse of drugs and alcohol, and high rates of suicide. The report documents the drastic decline in the presence of Aboriginal languages, even as Survivors and others work to maintain their distinctive cultures, traditions, and governance. The report offers 94 calls to action on the part of governments, churches, public institutions and non-Aboriginal Canadians as a path to meaningful reconciliation of Canada today with Aboriginal citizens. Even though the historical experience of residential schools constituted an act of cultural genocide by Canadian government authorities, the United Nation's declaration of the rights of aboriginal peoples and the specific recommendations of the Commission offer a path to move from apology for these events to true reconciliation that can be embraced by all Canadians.
Download or read book The Environmental Rights Revolution written by David R. Boyd and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The right to a healthy environment has been the subject of extensive philosophical debates that revolve around the question: Should rights to clean air, water, and soil be entrenched in law? David Boyd answers this by moving beyond theoretical debates to measure the practical effects of enshrining the right in constitutions. His pioneering analysis of 193 constitutions and the laws and court decisions of more than 100 nations in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa reveals a positive correlation between constitutional protection and stronger environmental laws, smaller ecological footprints, superior environmental performance, and improved quality of life.
