Castrilli, Counsel, Canadian Environmental Law Association Toronto, Ontario, June 14, 2023 Photo: Linda Pim cela.ca Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) • Specialty legal aid clinic dedicated to environmental equity, justice, and health • Founded in 1970, funded by Legal Aid Ontario since 1978 • CELA provides free legal services relating to environmental justice in Ontario, including repr. [...] Photo: Kelly Mathews cela.ca 2 Canadian Environmental Law Foundation • Key initiatives include: • Canadian Environmental Law Archives • Annual fellowship for one aspiring environmental lawyer, • Access to Justice for Northern Communities Initiative. [...] • The Foundation also supports ongoing education and outreach efforts to promote public participation in environmental decision-making. [...] coli contamination of the drinking water supply in Walkerton, Ontario, caused by improper water treatment following heavy rainfall that resulted in cattle manure reaching municipal wells, led to seven deaths and the illness of over two thousand people • The events spawned a two-part provincial inquiry – one into the immediate causes of the contamination – the second a more wide-ranging investigati. [...] Divestiture could produce environmental problems original acquisition of the lands was meant to avoid cela.ca 19 Future Challenges (cont.) • Bill 97, introduced in the Ontario legislature for First Reading in April 2023, also poses problems for source water protection by proposing to amend provincial land use planning law to allow Ministerial zoning orders to declare that CWA “significant threat p.
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