Action Alert: Your Right to Protect Your Community is Under Threat
Bill 140 would strip Ontarians’ rights under the Environmental Bill of Rights. Learn what’s at stake and how to take action.




Founded in 1970, CELA is one of the oldest environmental advocates for environmental protection in the country. With funding from Legal Aid Ontario, CELA provides free legal services relating to environmental justice in Ontario, including representing qualifying low-income and vulnerable or disadvantaged communities in litigation. CELA also works on environmental legal education and reform initiatives.
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Bill 140 would strip Ontarians’ rights under the Environmental Bill of Rights. Learn what’s at stake and how to take action.
CELA provided comments to the Ontario government in response to Bill 140, calling on it to be withdrawn.
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CELA urges provincial government to withdraw Bill 140.
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