Ontario’s top court orders new hearing for youth-led climate case | Unpublished
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Publication Date: October 18, 2024 - 20:43

Ontario’s top court orders new hearing for youth-led climate case

October 18, 2024
Ontario’s top court breathed new life into a Charter challenge of the provincial government’s emissions target on Thursday, a decision heralded as a major victory for the group of young people who brought the case and others looking to hold governments to account on climate change.The Ontario Court of Appeal’s ruling sends the case back to the lower court for a new hearing and revives the possibility that Ontario’s weakened emissions target may still be found unconstitutional.


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