On February 26, 2020, Bill C-230, a private member's bill,
was introduced by Nova Scotia MP Lenore Zann to seek environmental
justice in Canada.
Bill C-230 requires
the Minister of the Environment to develop a national strategy to
promote efforts across Canada to address the harm caused by
environmental racism (the "Bill"). On June 22, 2021 the
Standing Committee on Environmental and Sustainable Development
(the "Committee") tabled the Bill with
amendments in the House of Commons.
Three of the four parties represented on the Committee supported
the proposed Bill with some amendments including renaming it to the
"National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism and
Environmental Justice Act". An important amendment approved by
the Committee requires that the national strategy include
information and statistics relating to the location of
environmental hazards, and an examination of the link between race,
socio-economic status and environmental risk, in
