Ecojustice, CELA, CEC and Sustainability Network Present the 2021 Environmental Law Toolkit

The 2021 Environmental Law Toolkit, taking place on November 17 and 18 from 1-2 pm, is hosted by Anastasia Lintner of the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) who has designed these sessions to educate nonprofits active in the environmental field about the legal tools available to protect our air, water, land, and human health.

Click here for more information and registration.

Cost: $50 per person

Please note all registrants will receive access to 11 Legal Toolkit recordings and slide decks for 90 days. Registrants will also receive a link to join the Zoom Meeting Sessions on November 17th and November 18th.

Panelists will provide brief introductory remarks but each session provides time for registrants, having listened to the recordings, to question any or all of the speakers.

November 17th, 2021, 1:00-2:00 PM ET 
Topics: Reconciliation, Environmental Assessment, Public Participation and the (Ontario) Environmental Bill of Rights and Petitions
Panelists: Joseph Castrilli, Rick Lindgren, Kerrie Blaise, Peter Hillson, Petri Bailey and Caitlyn McCoy

November 18th, 2021, 1:00-2:00 PM ET 
Topics: Rights, Torts, Prosecutions, Administrative Tribunals, Land-Use Conflicts
Panelists: Ian Miron, Rick Lindgren, Ramani Nadarajah, Jacqueline Wilson, Robert Wright

Panels will be recorded and circulated to registrants that same day.

The recordings and Zoom sessions will help you to understand what laws and policies exist to protect the environment and how to use them effectively as well as the opportunities provided by law to participate in government decision-making. It will also help you to understand where the legal framework for environmental protection is absent, incomplete or otherwise inadequate so that you can work to obtain stronger laws and policies.

Participants will receive a nuts and bolts overview of the laws that protect our environment. You’ll access recordings of the following:

Using Access to Information Tools Effectively
Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice and Charlotte Ireland, Paralegal, Ecojustice

Using Ontario’s Environmental Bill of Rights
Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Torts: What They Are and How to Protect the Environment Against Them
Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Private Prosecutions: Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands
Ramani Nadarajah, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Environmental Assessment: The [dead] Letter of the Law
Joseph Castrilli, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Municipal Planning: PPS, Growth Plans, OPs, and Much More
Jacqueline Wilson, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Reviewing Environmental Decisions
Robert Wright, former Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice

Submissions on Enforcement Matters to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation
Caitlin McCoy, Legal Officer, Commission for Environmental Cooperation Secretariat

Advancing Indigenous Rights
Kerrie Blaise, Counsel Northern Services, Canadian Environmental Law Association and Petri Bailey, Lakehead University Law Student

Indigenous Law & Canadian Law: Challenges and Opportunities
Kerrie Blaise, Counsel Northern Services, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Peter Hillson, Intern, Canadian Environmental Law Association, Petri Bailey, Lakehead University Law Student

Fight for Your Right to a Healthy Environment
Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice