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NAFTA panel won’t review Canada’s polar bear policy
MONTRÉAL – An international trade panel will not review whether Canada is enforcing its environmental legislation to protect its polar bear population.
The Commission for Environmental Co-operation voted 2-1 to reject a request for such an investigation.
A U.S. environmental group had filed a submission claiming that Canada refuses to designate the bears as endangered, despite the ongoing loss of their sea ice habitat.
The Center for Biological Diversity claimed that Canada failed to use the best available science to evaluate risks to the bears and did notmeet its own legal deadlines to enact protection for them.
The trade panel decided it wasn’t its job to second-guess Canada’s policy on the bears.
The U.S. voted against Canada on the issue.
The Commission for Environmental Co-operation was formed as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
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