ALLEGED FAILURE TO PROTECT CARIBOU PROMPTS LAWSUIT

A wildlife advocacy group is

taking Environment Minister Catherine McKenna to court for allegedly failing to tell Canadians how the country’s woodland caribou are being protected. The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society said Thursday it had filed an application for judicial review in Federal Court in Montreal. The Species at Risk Act requires the environment minister to “form an opinion about whether or not the critical habitat of the woodland caribou is protected,” lawyer Frederic Paquin told a news conference.