An Ontario ruling opens the door to Charter challenges over inadequate government policies.

A group of seven youths sued Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s government in November 2019 for replacing the province’s previous greenhouse gas emissions reduction target with a significantly weaker and unscientific one. The Mathur v. Ontario case made history early this spring when a judge ruled — for the first time in Canada — that courts can consider whether a government’s response to climate change infringes upon human rights.

A Canadian one to go with Held v. Montana