Registration: $50 per person
Dates: November 14 & 15, 2023
Time: 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM ET

*Please note all registrants will receive access to the recordings and slide decks for 90 days. 
*Registrants will also receive a link to join the Zoom Meeting Sessions on November 14th and November 15th, 2023.

‍The Environmental Law Toolkit is designed to educate nonprofits active in the environmental field about the legal tools available to protect our air, water, land, and human health.

The Toolkit is presented in two parts:

- Part 1: A set of recordings which participants are to review on their own time. Each recording listed below has been recently reviewed by the presenters and either re-recorded or deemed up to date and relevant in 2023.

- Part 2: Two hour-long panel discussions will be held on November 14 and 15 to discuss the various modules with registrants.

Register early for two months access to recordings and plenty of time to prepare before the panel discussions. Registrants will have access to all content for one month after the panels take place (until mid December).

The lectures and panel 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 - 54 minutes

Presenters: Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice and Charlotte Ireland, Paralegal, Ecojustice

Using Ontario's Environmental Bill of Rights - 43 minutes

Presenter: Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association
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Torts: What They Are and How to Protect the Environment Against Them - 60 minutes

Presenter: Rick Lindgren, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Private Prosecutions: Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands - 35 minutes

Presenter: Ramani Nadarajah, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Environmental Assessment: The [dead] Letter of the Law - 62 minutes

Presenter: Joseph Castrilli, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Municipal Planning: PPS, Growth Plans, OPs, and Much More - 17 minutes

Presenter: Jacqueline Wilson, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association

Introduction to Administrative Law: How the courts supervise government decision-making - 42 minutes

Presenter: Lindsay Beck, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice

Submissions on Enforcement Matters to the Commission for Environmental Cooperation - 46 minutes

Presenter: Caitlin McCoy, Legal Officer, Commission for Environmental Cooperation Secretariat

Advancing Indigenous Rights - 21 minutes

Presenters: Kerrie Blaise, Founder and Legal Counsel, Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence and Petri Bailey, Judicial Law Clerk, Superior Court of Justice

Indigenous Law & Canadian Law: Challenges and Opportunities - 60 minutes

Presenters: Kerrie Blaise, Founder and Legal Counsel, Legal Advocates for Nature's Defence, Peter Hillson, Articling Student, Environment, Conservation and Parks, Petri Bailey, Judicial Law Clerk, Superior Court of Justice

Fight for Your Right to a Healthy Environment - 98 minutes

Presenter: Danielle Gallant, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice and Ian Miron, Staff Lawyer, Ecojustice

West Coast Environmental Law on Coastal & Ocean Protection Law in BC - 57 minutes

Presenters: Stephanie Hewson, Linda Nowlan, Georgia Lloyd-Smith, Deborah Carlson & Michael Bissonnette.

West Coast Environmental Law on Moving Toward Environmental Justice: The Role of Law and Legal Institutions in EJ and Solutions Within the Legal Field - 131 minutes

Presenters: K̓áwáziɫ Marilyn Slett, Chief Councillor, Heiltsuk Tribal Council, Lorene Oikawa, President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians, WCEL Board Member, Rayanna Seymour-Hourie, WCEL Staff Lawyer and Sunshine Waisman, WCEL Law Student.
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West Coast Environmental Law on Environmental Justice in Action: Links Between Oppression, Law, and Environmental Issues and How to Harness Legal Tools to Challenge Oppressive Systems - 128 minutes

Presenters: Anna Johnston, Staff Lawyer, Rayanna Seymour-Hourie, Staff Lawyer & RELAW Program Manager, and Denise Hampden, Regional Education Officer PSAC & Member of the Coalition of Black Trade Unionists.