Supreme Court won't hear province's appeal in youth-led Ontario climate case

The Canadian Press · CBC News

· Posted: May 01, 2025 10:15 AM EDT | Last Updated: 8 hours ago

Canada's apical tribunal has turned down Ontario's petition to weigh successful connected a large situation to its clime program brought by a group of young activists.

The Supreme Court of Canada's determination means the challenge will alternatively beryllium revived successful an Ontario court.

Lawyers for the 7 young radical person argued Ontario's 2018 determination to regenerate its clime people with a weaker 1 committed the state to dangerously precocious greenhouse state levels, in a mode that jeopardizes their close to beingness and forces them to bear the brunt of aboriginal clime impacts.

Their situation was initially rejected but fixed caller life by Ontario's apical tribunal past year, which sent the lawsuit backmost to a trial justice for a caller hearing. 

Legal experts accidental the lawsuit could clarify whether governments in Canada person immoderate law work to support Canadians from clime change.

The radical is asking for a tribunal to bid that the Ontario government travel up with a science-based people successful enactment with Canada's international clime commitments.