Canada has constitutional duty to reach climate targets, First Nations argue in lawsuit

By Ian Burns ( February 24, 2020, 9:38 AM EST) -- Two hereditary chiefs of the Wet’suw’eten Nation have launched a court challenge saying the federal government has violated their peoples’ constitutional rights by continually failing to reach its climate targets, a case their lawyer says will continue even if the standoff over the controversial Coastal GasLink pipeline ends....