Breaking news: Feds pass greenest Bill Parliament has ever seen
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- Published on Wednesday, 01 April 2015 06:17
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Green Groups Overjoyed by New Budget Bill, Contains Everything We Ever Wanted
Dear PAOV,
If you could write the federal budget bill, what new laws would it contain? Perhaps an environmental bill of rights to protect Canadians’ rights to healthy air, water and land? Perhaps an act to ensure that all projects are assessed for their positive contributions to the environment, communities and the economy? A law to protect future generations by requiring Canada reduce its greenhouse... gas emission? A law requiring the government to base its decisions in science, rather than ideology?
Hold onto your hats – the federal government has done just that! Today, green groups across Canada are celebrating a new, visionary omnibus budget bill, an Act so green that it will make Canada a leader in sustainability.
Hey, we were skeptical, too. But after reviewing budget Bill C-777, West Coast Environmental Law has confirmed that it contains the greenest laws in Canadian history. Even Scandinavia will start looking to us as examples of resource and economic responsibility!
Among Bill C-777’s highlights:
- Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Corporate Practices Act
- An Act to Streamline the Protection of the Environment Through the Expeditious Discovery and Avoidance of Environmental Hazards, Health Risks, Potential Environmental Disasters and Breaches of Aboriginal Title and Rights
- First Nations’ Control of First Nations Land Act, which recognizes First Nations governance over their traditional territories according to their ancestral environmental laws, and requires the Crown to honour the treaties it has signed.
Read more about Bill C-777, the “Sustainable Jobs, Growth within Limits, and a Healthy Environment and Prosperity for Future Generations Act”r0
