“This is not the end of the reforms we want to bring to CEPA,” he told reporters. “We understand that there are other changes that should happen, and we’ve already started working on tabling a new bill that could tackle other changes that are required.”Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 5, 2022.
The federal government’s overhaul of Canada’s cornerstone environmental legislation is now complete. More than a year after it was first tabled, Bill S-5, which proposed countless amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act received Royal Assent on Tuesday.“It has been a long time coming,” said Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault during a
on Wednesday. “It was past time for the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999…to be modernized.”