Titled “Critique on Proposed Ontario Environmental Act (Bill 94)”, the report was written by then CELA counsel David Estrin. Artfully written, the report opens with the argument
“Any Bill that purports to protect our natural environment must inevitably resolve two conflicting interests. On the one hand, the environmental legislation must recognize the validity of the conservationists’ argument that our natural environment can only be preserved for the future if fairly drastic measures are taken immediately to limit existing and new sources of pollution. On the other hand, the legislation must also take cognizance of the fact that to insist on a pristine pure environment in the 20th Century is both unrealistic and unfair to many segments of society.”
