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Judge rejects federal bid to quash case over greenhouse gas emission targets
Justice Patrick Gleeson said the government failed to meet the high bar for striking the application.
- On Friday, September 18, 2026, the Federal Court in Ottawa rejected the government's bid to dismiss a climate lawsuit, with Justice Patrick Gleeson ruling the government failed to meet the legal threshold to strike the application.
- Environmental Defence, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, and activists Marie Maltais, Sophia Mathur, and Shirley Barnea filed the suit in June, alleging Ottawa is off track to meet its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions targets.
- Plaintiffs requested the court order the government to bring its 2030 emission reductions plan into compliance with the Net-Zero Accountability Act, further seeking a declaration that the current plan is unlawful.
- Government lawyers previously argued the Federal Court lacks the power to order Ottawa to take specific steps to meet emissions targets, but Justice Gleeson's ruling rejected this bid, allowing the legal challenge to continue.
- With the dismissal motion denied, the case moves forward, keeping the government's climate policy under judicial scrutiny as the lawsuit centers on accusations that Ottawa has no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target.
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Judge rejects federal bid to quash case over greenhouse gas emission targets
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has rejected Ottawa's bid to toss out a case accusing the government of having no intention of meeting its 2030 greenhouse gas emissions target.
·Winnipeg, Canada
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