Sierra Legal Defence Fund

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The Sierra Legal Defence Fund is Canada's largest non-profit environmental law organisation, using litigation as its primary method of defending and protecting public health and the environment. It is a registered Canadian charitable organisation founded in Vancouver, British Columbia in December 1990, by Stewart Elgie, son of Robert Elgie. Additional offices were opened in Toronto, Ontario in 1996 and Yellowknife, Northwest Territories in 2006. A joint Sierra Legal–University of Ottawa environmental law clinic was established in Ottawa, Ontario in January 2007, where Stewart Elgie is currently a Law Professor and associate director of the University of Ottawa’s Institute of the Environment.

Sierra Legal officially be changed the name of the organisation to Ecojustice Canada in September of 2007.


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