Healthy Environment, Canadians and a Healthy Economy: Strengthening the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

Healthy Environment, Canadians and a Healthy Economy: Strengthening the Canadian Environmental Protection Act

The House of Commons Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development, who Pontiac MP William Amos is a member of, presented a report on June 15, calling on the federal government to strengthen the Canadian Protection Act (1999) to better protect human and environmental health from toxic substances.

In a report entitled “A Healthy Environment, a Healthy Canadian and a Health Economy: Strengthening the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999”, the Committee recommends that the government recognize and protects environmental rights: the right to clean air, clean water and a healthy and an ecologically balanced environment; The obligation of non-discrimination with regard to the protection of the environment; And procedural environmental rights, including the right to access to information, public participation in environmental decision-making, and access to justice for environmental matters.

Member of the Standing Committee on the Environment and Sustainable Development in the House of Commons and Member of Parliament for Pontiac William Amos says: “One of the most important responsibilities of a government is to protect its citizens from various scourges, including war, violent crime and infectious diseases. In recent decades, pollution and toxic substances have proved to be another threat to the health and well-being of the population,”