Canada’s top court has announced it will hear an appeal of the federal government’s ban on single-use plastics.
The Supreme Court of Canada made the announcement in an Oct. 15 press release, saying it would grant the appeal “with costs in the cause.”
The case will determine whether Ottawa had the legal authority to classify plastic manufactured items as toxic under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, a designation used to underpin the ban.
The announcement comes more than five years after the federal government added “plastic manufactured items” to the list of toxic substances under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act….