Speeches and Presentations

 
  • Remarks on Bill C-73 Nature Accountability Act, Presentation to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development on behalf of Greenpeace Canada, December 11, 2024

  • Remarks on Amendments to the Impact Assessment Act, Presentation to the House of Commons Finance Committee on behalf of Nature Canada, June 3, 2024

  • Protecting and Restoring Nature: Global to Local, Presentation to Greenspace Alliance of Canada’s Capital, June 3, 2024

  • There Oughta be a Law: Update on Nature Accountability Bill, Presentation to RCEN Biodiversity Caucus, April 25, 2024

  • ENGOs: Indispensable Actors in Preventing Climate Chaos and Biodiversity Loss, University of Ottawa Guest Lecture, March 25, 2024

  • Halting and Reversing Biodiversity Loss: Implementing the Global Biodiversity Framework, Presentation to the RCEN Biodiversity Caucus, December 9, 2023

  • 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, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law Guest Lecture, March 13, 2020

  • Comments at a reception honouring Stephen Hazell on his retirement from Nature Canada Metropolitain Café, Ottawa, November 1, 2019

  • 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