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Steven Guilbeault, Canada’s environment minister, said the government was “strongly considering” an appeal of the federal court’s ruling.

By Vjosa Isai • New York Times

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 3 points 2 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


But just as businesses and consumers were adapting, a court ruling upended the policy, a key part of Canada’s effort to be among the “world leaders in fighting plastic pollution.”

But Justice Angela Furlanetto of the Federal Court ruled on Thursday that the government’s classification was a stretch, calling the designated items “too broad to be listed” as toxic substances.

The government “acted outside their authority” and the decision to add the plastic items to the toxic substances list “was not supported by the evidence” that it had on hand, Justice Furlanetto wrote.

The previous two setbacks Professor Winfield mentioned came in October, when the Supreme Court ruled that several sections of a law covering environmental impact assessments, a process largely used to consider how infrastructure projects could affect the environment, were unconstitutional.

Later that month, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau also announced that the government would temporarily lift the carbon tax for home heating oil to address the high cost of living, in a move some environmentalist denounced as backsliding on its climate goals and environmental agenda.

In her new and long-awaited memoir, Barbra Streisand writes that she found Pierre Trudeau, the former prime minister of Canada, “very dapper, intelligent, intense … kind of a combination of Albert Einstein and Napoleon (only taller).


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[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

I find it hilarious that Barbra Streisands memoire is relevant to this.

Anyways... kudos to shooting ourselves in the foot because the government was found to overstep. I look forward to companies not caring about single use plastics again. /s

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