Speeches and Presentations
ENGOs: Indispensable Actors in Preventing Climate Chaos and Biodiversity Loss University of Ottawa Guest Lecture March 9, 2023
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: High-Carbon Projects and the Impact Assessment Act International Association of Impact Assessment Conference, Vancouver, May 6, 2022
Defending Nature: Tools To Impel Federal Action, Nature Canada Webinar, June 17, 2021
Strategic and Regional Assessment, University of Ottawa Guest Lecture, March 17, 2021
Federal Assessment Law: Tools to Defend Nature in your Community, Nature Canada Webinar, June 4, 2020
Impact Assessment Act, Guest Environmental Law Lecture, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, March 13, 2020
Getting to Sustainability: Seizing the Opportunity to Rethink Federal Environmental Assessment, University of Ottawa Geography Department Guest Lecture, Ottawa Ontario, March 29, 2016
Environmental Assessment of Canadian Pipelines, Panel on North American Pipelines, Wilson Centre Canada Institute, Washington DC, March 15, 2015
Environmental Law and Science in Decline, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Guest Lecture, Ottawa Ontario, November 10, 2014
Confidentiality in Environmental Regulation-making, Canadian Bar Association/Justice Canada Annual Meeting, National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section, Ottawa Ontario, November 7, 2014
Stephen and Kathleen: Birds of a Feather? Panel on Ontario Species at Risk Act, Canadian Environmental Law Students Conference, Ottawa ON, November 18, 2013
Zombie or Phoenix: Canadian Environmental Assessment Act 2012, Environmental Law Special Lecture, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, March 20 2013
Habitat Conservation in Canada and the National Conservation Plan, Brief to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, Nature Canada, April 16, 2013
The New Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, Canadian Bar Association/Justice Canada Annual Meeting, National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section, Ottawa Ontario, October 18, 2012
Federal-Provincial Implications of Environmental Advocacy, Guest Lecture, University of Ottawa Political Science Department, October 17, 2012
Strange Bedfellows: Conserving Heritage in an Era of Government Indifference, Heritage Summit, Heritage Canada Foundation, Montreal Quebec, October 12, 2012
Environmental Assessment in the Climate Century, Clean Energy Superpower and Environmental Assessment Conference, Queen's Institute for Energy and Environmental Policy, Kingston Ontario, April 15, 2011
Federal Environmental Assessment: Revisiting First Principles, Ontario Association For Impact Assessment Conference, Ottawa, October 14, 2010
The Arctic: Alpha and Omega of Climate Change, Earth Hour Presentation at University of Ottawa, March 27, 2010
Canada to Copenhagen, Keynote Speech to Fill the Hill: International Day of Climate Action on Parliament Hill, October 24, 2009
Effective Heritage Building Advocacy in the Climate Century, Heritage Canada Foundation Conference, September 26, 2009
Environmental Assessment in the Climate Century, Forum of the Federations Conference, September 14, 2009
Stopping the Kettle Island Bridge/Corridor, Annual Meeting Manor Park Community Association June 20, 2009
Getting to Green, How Green is Green? Workshop: Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation, March 25, 2009
Kyoto to Copenhagen: Canada’s Transition to a Green Energy Future, Smaller Footprints, Bigger Steps, Queen’s University Foreign Policy Conference, November 8, 2008
Business in a Low-Carbon World, Young Environmental Professionals Dinner, April 14, 2008
Kyoto to Collingwood: Canada in the Climate Century, Earth Day 2008 Keynote Address, Collingwood Ontario, April 23, 2008
Business in a Carbon and Resource-constrained World, McGill University Conference on Business and Sustainability, February 1, 2008
One Earth, One Chance: Canada’s Role in Preventing Catastrophic Climate Change, Shirley Shipman Memorial Lecture, Ryerson University, October 14, 2007
Are Canadian Muslims going green? Facing the Environmental Challenge, Conference of the Islamic Society of North America May 20, 2007