The Children’s Lawsuit Against Ontario’s CO2 Emissions Targets

Sweden may have inflicted Greta Thunberg and her environmental hectoring on the world, but Canada is now making its own contribution to children’s activism. Ontario climate zealots have launched a court battle – with seven children and youth named as applicants – alleging the province’s modest rollback of its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets violates their Charter rights. Exploiting children is bad enough, but in this devastating critique, retired litigation lawyer Andrew Roman explains how the activists use legal and logical fallacies to make their case. And he exposes the fundamental flaw in the entire matter – that Courts should not even be ruling on the inherently political matter of climate policy.