FROGS, RESCUE LAKE SIMCOE COALITION AND SELECTED GEORGINA ISLAND FIRST NATIONS RESIDENTS FILE ENVIRONMENTAL PETITION WITH THE FEDERAL ENVIRONMENT COMMISSIONER.

Petition

Environmental Petitions

 

Environmental petitions are a unique way for Canadian residents—acting as individuals or on behalf of an organization—to bring their concerns and questions about environmental issues related to sustainable development to the attention of the federal ministers, with a guaranteed response.

Sustainable Development includes:

  1. The integration of the environment and the economy:
  2. Protecting the health of Canadians;
  3. Protecting ecosystems:
  4. Meeting international obligations:
  5. Promoting equity;
  6. An integrated approach to planning and making decisions that takes into account the environmental and natural resource costs of different economic options and the economic costs of different environmental and natural resource options;
  7. Preventing pollution; and
  8. Respect for nature and the needs of future generations

The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development, administers environmental petitions on behalf of the Auditor General of Canada.

The petition was dated March 6, 2023. Receipt was acknowledged by both the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Coast Guard on March 9.  Both acknowledgements confirmed that f formal response would be delivered with 120 days of receipt pursuant to the requirements of Section 22 of the Auditor General Act. (Due July 7 2023)