On November 7, 2019, the National Association of
Women and the Law ("NAWL") and Friends
of the Earth ("FOE") filed a Memorandum
of Argument of the Proposed Intervenor in the Climate case being
appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada
("SCC") by the Provinces of Ontario and
Saskatchewan. The FOE and NAWL were successful in security standing
before the SCC to participate in the appeal of the Greenhouse
Gas Pollution Pricing Act case, scheduled to be heard in March
2020.
On January 27, 2020, NAWL and FOE filed its factum as
intervenors agreeing with the Saskatchewan and Ontario Courts of
Appeal that the federal government's Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act
("Act") Is permissible under the Peace
Order and Good Government ("POGG") clause set out in
section 91 of the Constitution Act, 1867.
