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Late last week, 15 young Canadians took the federal government to court over its failure to protect against climate change. They allege that Canada has violated their Charter rights to life, liberty, security and equality.
Climate cases based on other grounds have failed in Canada in the past. But this one could be different.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Karinne Lantz from Dalhousie University explains why. She points to a landmark case that was upheld by the Netherlands’ Supreme Court: It ruled that the lives of people around the world were being threatened, and that the Dutch government had to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020. Parts of the two cases overlap — and many of the Canadian government’s arguments match those that were unsuccessful for the Dutch government.
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Climate activists gather outside the Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Dec. 20, 2019, ahead of a ruling in a landmark case in which the government was ordered to slash greenhouse gas emissions by 25 per cent by 2020.
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An 1801 etching of a dandified physician taking a lancet to a ‘dindonnade,’ a word signifying both ‘turkey’ and ‘hoax.’ It ridicules the smallpox vaccine, which takes fluid from an animal to insert into a human.
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