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Environment committee  Well, we're hopeful about environmental rights being recognized in Canada. We're hopeful about these amendments to CEPA being approved and CEPA being updated, because it was done before we were born. We need a CEPA that reflects the modern era and what we need now. Thank you

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. For a large quantity of our schooling—because the traditional school system often doesn't go into the detail we would want in various subjects—we did distance learning so we could tailor our schoolwork to special interests, and a lot of that was about

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  To quickly answer the second part, we have done various presentations and speaking engagements before. To answer the first part of your question, we believe that, just because most youth aren't old enough to vote, it doesn't mean that they don't have a say. It doesn't mean that

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  As I've said before, we're not environmental lawyers. This might be perhaps a question better asked of David Boyd.

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  As Franny said, the decisions made today will impact generations into the future. The main purpose of adopting environmental rights is to protect the environment and the world into the future for future generations.

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  I can take that question. As we said in our speech, we're not lawyers or anything. We're just people who care about the environment and who want Canada to have the level of environmental protection that we need. I think the amendments proposed are what we need for this to be wha

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek

Environment committee  When I was 10 and my sister was 7, we learned that more than 100 countries around the world have recognized their citizens' right to live in a healthy environment, but Canada is not one of them. Having grown up believing that Canada was an environmental and human rights leader, w

December 6th, 2022Committee meeting

Rupert Yakelashek