Abstract
The economic crisis of the 1980’s in Canada favored the organization of social groups concerned about justice, equity and wellbeing. The environmental movement demonstrated against the adoption of policies of neoliberal nature in the social and economic spheres. It opposed the relaxation of laws on environmental protection and the economic practices that deal damage in the name of commercial competiveness.
The Canadian environmental movement has a broad social base and takes up a plural spectrum of ideological positions which range from mediating conservationism to the most radical ecologism. They have mostly demonstrated and made social advocacy against what they consider an unfair statu quo. They have faced bureaucratic and legal blocks, as well as economic and political interests that hinder or avoid the application of many of their proposals. Some of them have influenced public opinion through the media, disseminating information on environmental problems and looking for a change of attitude in the modern society lifestyle.
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