Why Ecojustice intervened in favour of environmental legislation during constructive taking cases
Lawyer Sarah McDonald discusses Alitus, Lynch and what it’s like working as an intervener
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Lawyer Sarah McDonald discusses Alitus, Lynch and what it’s like working as an intervener
If you give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. If you teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime. But what if a man has the right to sell fish, and he builds his business and livelihood around that right, and then the government passes a law allowing only the government to sell fish, putting him out of business? In a nutshell, that's the backdrop for a 1979 Supreme Court of Canada SCC decision called Manitoba Fisheries Ltd. v. The Queen.