Learning From BC’s Troubling Experiments With “Professional Reliance” in Environmental (De)Regulation

Asking questions about professional reliance in BC BC’s new NDP government recently announced a wide-ranging review of “professional reliance.” Environment and Climate Change Minister, George Heyman, was accompanied at the announcement by Green MLA Sonia Furstenau, who has been on the forefront of pressing for this review after her own experience (prior to her election) in opposing contaminated soil disposal in her own community. West Coast Environmental Law welcomes this review, which has the potential to improve legal protection for human health and the environment by addressing a major approach to deregulation that has been implemented in BC over the past 15 years. Other provinces may wish to learn from BC’s troubling experiments with professional reliance. What is professional reliance? So what is “professional reliance” and why does it matter for people concerned about public health and environmental protection? In principle, all it…

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