Do we need government regulations to protect nature? Kerrie Blaise says yes. Founder of Blaise Law and Legal Advocates for Nature’s Defence, Kerrie is one of Canada’s leading environmental and Indigenous rights lawyers, with a diverse background in energy regulation and international trade law. She was part of the inaugural Allard Hall Law School at the University of British Columbia’s global resource and environmental law program. And she holds degrees from some of the world’s top universities in ecological science and environmental studies. Her work has taken her to the frontlines of economic-environmental debates in Canada, from remote watersheds to resource-based communities like Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. Living in rural Ontario, we met with Kerrie to discuss the art of problem solving, the divisiveness of environmental regulations and the role of law in protecting biodiversity.
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What do you think?
- Should our legal system be how we solve complex problems?
- What if the interpretation of laws has unintended consequences? What if they hurt the economy? The environment? Do we prioritize one over the other?
- Who funds scientific research? And are we including enough context in our research questions to get the right answers?
- Future decisions might actually require a new way of solving problems. What does that look like?