Harper Cons Killing Mulroney-Bouchard Cons' Environmental Law

 This subversion of environmental law is ironic, since it was the Conservatives, Mulroney and Bouchard, then Minister of the Environment, who insisted on the importance of Federal jurisdiction and oversight. Attaran has a good footnote, # 27, to that effect. on page 10 of his article: "As Environment Minister, he addressed Parliament's Standing Committee on Environment,...talking of his "department's policy...to establish and request national standards." which he supported because "it does not make sense to accept...that we would have a patchwork of provincial regulations". Even after leaving the federal government and taking leadership of the Bloc Québécois, Bouchard preached that, "for the time being, Ottawa has powers and jurisdictions in the environment, and it might be that even some nationalists in Quebec must thank God for that, because Quebec is not taking care of its environment now".