In April 2021, the federal Cabinet issued an Order placing “plastic manufactured items” on the List of Toxic Substances in Schedule 1 of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. They claimed authority to list every single imaginable plastic product as "toxic" using the criminal law power. The "plastics ban" was challenged,…
The Court Challenges program offers federal taxpayer funding to certain Charter challenges. The program is essentially the federal government handing taxpayer dollars to lawyers and activists to sue them. The Trudeau government wants to make this ridiculous program permanent with Bill C-316. We at the CCF are opposed to this…
The government should not fund lawsuits against its own laws with taxpayer money.This should be obvious.Yet quietly working its way through Parliament is a private member’s bill, Bill C-316, that would embed the controversial Court Challenges Program directly into legislation. The Court Challenges Program offers federal taxpayer funding to certain…
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