‘The whales are in crisis’: two federal ministers sued over delay in protecting B.C.’s orcas

The Narwhal
Ainslie Cruickshank
2025 01 28

The conservation groups are now asking the Federal Court to order the ministers to recommend cabinet issue an emergency order under the Species At Risk Act or declare the ministers’ delay to be “unlawful.”
“The whales are in crisis,” Imalka Nilmalgoda, a lawyer with the environmental law charity Ecojustice, which is representing the conservation groups, said in an interview.