Stop Canada from gutting environmental protections

Keep Trump’s deregulatory agenda out of Canada

Canada is dismantling environmental protections at a dizzying pace. On top of a series of climate policy rollbacks, the federal government is proposing to open loopholes in environmental laws to “simplify” decisions about major projects like pipelines.

That means fewer safeguards for endangered species, Indigenous rights and public health.

Here’s what’s at stake:

• Endangered species could be wiped out if projects are “exempted” from requirements in the Species at Risk Act;
• Environmental and human health will be at greater risk as major projects are approved without thorough assessment of their environmental and social impacts as required by the Impact Assessment Act, leaving communities vulnerable;
• Critical fish habitat could be open to exploitation with changes to the Fisheries Act.

And that’s not all.

• Harmful pesticides could more easily fall through regulatory cracks into our food under proposed amendments weakening Canada’s pesticide law;
• Wild salmon already facing stressors from habitat loss and warming waters could face hotbeds of pathogens from fish farms if Canada doesn’t follow through on its promise to end open-net pens by 2029;
• Alberta’s proposed bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast would jeopardize the oil tanker ban and leave coastal communities and ecosystems at risk of catastrophic oil spills.

Chipping away at the laws that keep us and the planet healthy is not in the public interest. It’s pandering to industries that wreak havoc on ecosystems and the climate, and it’s right out of the Trump playbook.

Send a letter to Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne and your member of Parliament and tell them to back off environmental rollbacks!