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People have a right to voice their opinions about environmental issues in their communities. Sometimes that right is threatened by lawsuits that are intended to silence people. Those lawsuits are called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
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The Campaign
Working with dozens of community and legal groups, we're leading the charge to protect public participation in Ontario. We want Ontario to outlaw SLAPPs, as Quebec and many American states have already done.
Support for creating such a law in Ontario is growing. Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller has called SLAPPs a threat to public participation and asked the government to create effective laws to prevent them. More than 60 Ontario municipalities, including Mississauga and Hamilton, have passed resolutions calling for a law to end SLAPPs. In 2010, the Province struck a blue-ribbon panel to advise it on what anti-SLAPP legislation should look like. Now it's time to turn their recommendations into law.
Backgrounder on SLAPP Suits in Ontario
