New to the CEPA Webinar Series – Friday January 22, 2021 at 1:00 pm ET
Are Canada’s Environmental Laws up to the Challenge? Protecting Communities, their Rights and the Environment from the Threats of Biotechnology
Announcing a fourth webinar in the series on the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA). The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is collaborating with Nature Canada on this webinar.
Please join us.
Registration Required: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvfu6sqDgqHtFzXbT-twfSd4WL47GDJpTr.
Date: Friday January 22, 2021
Time: 1:00 p.m. ET (Time zones: 2:00 p.m. AT, 12 noon CT, 11 am MT, 10 am PT)
Length: 1 hr. 15 mins
For over 20 years, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999 (CEPA) has been used to evaluate and manage genetically engineered animals and other products of biotechnology. In this webinar, we will explore how CEPA has performed, and whether it is protecting nature and communities exposed to products of biotechnology, particularly Indigenous people and their rights. With recent advances in genetic engineering, such as CRISPR, as well as more products of biotechnology entering the Canadian marketplace, an assessment of CEPA’s effectiveness is long overdue. In the September 2020 Throne Speech, the federal government made a commitment to “modernize” CEPA. This webinar will highlight the recent example of AquAdvantage Salmon and the changes needed to better regulate future proposals to manufacture or import new GE animals.
We will have presentations by experts on biotechnology issues and CEPA, including:
· Lucy Sharratt, Coordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
· Charles Greg Sark, Professor, University of Prince Edward Island
· Hugh Benevides, Advisor (CEPA Reform), Nature Canada
· Elaine MacDonald, Senior Scientist, Ecojustice
Who should participate: Concerned citizens, Indigenous peoples, health and environmental NGOs, labour organizations, students and academics, scientists.
To register for Webinar #4: Visit CEPA Webinar series at the following: Webpage link – https://cela.ca/changes_to_cepa/
Registration link – https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvfu6sqDgqHtFzXbT-twfSd4WL47GDJpTr.
Note that your registration will be immediate and you should receive a confirmation from CELA<no-reply@zoom.us>
For more information, contact: Fe de Leon, MPH, Researcher and Paralegal, Canadian Environmental Law Association, deleonf@cela.ca (email); 416-960-2284 ext 7223 (office)
Background References:
Government of Canada. Canadian Environmental Protection Act review https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/canadian-environmental-protection-act-registry/review.html.
Nature Canada. July 2020. Protecting the environment from GE organisms: Proposed Amendments to Part 6, Canadian Environmental Protection Act
Canadian Environmental Law Association. October 2018. Proposed Amendments to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act https://cela.ca/proposed-amendments-to-the-canadian-environmental-protection-act/
CEPA Webinar Series. November 2020. https://cela.ca/changes_to_cepa/
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