Feeling Amped Up These Days: Ontario’s Expansion of Administrative Monetary Penalties for Environmental Contraventions

Join our friends Marc McAree and Bianca Salive of Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP as they deliver a 1 hr virtual Zoom webinar to explain what is now known about Ontario's proposed expansion of Administrative Monetary Penalties.

The proposed expansion of this enforcement tool means that Administrative Monetary Penalties can give rise to financial penalties for a whole host of violations under various environmental statutes including Ontario's Environmental Protection Act and the Ontario Water Resources Act.

Register today to get ahead of this issue and hear initial thoughts from Marc and Bianca about how an expanded AMPs framework is anticipated to broaden legal exposure in Ontario.

Webinar Host

Stephen Booth, CET, LEED AP, RESET AP
Executive Vice President, GTA Indoor Environmental Quality

Webinar Instructors

Marc McAree, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B., M.E.S.
Partner at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP and certified as an Environmental Law Specialist by the Law Society of Ontario.

Marc provides advice and solutions to a wide range of clients to overcome their environmental law and litigation issues. Marc has significant environmental law expertise in contaminated land/brownfields clean ups, transactions and litigation, and environmental compliance and approvals. Marc also helps clients reduce and manage environmental risks and liabilities.

Marc is recognized for his excellence representing clients in environmental civil litigation at all levels of Ontario Courts, defence of clients against environmental regulatory prosecutions, and appearances before Ontario's Land Tribunal and other administrative law decision-makers on appeals and other hearings. Marc has particular experience litigating soil and groundwater contaminant impacts, nuisance and odour issues.

Marc is named in the 2023 Lexpert™®/American Lawyer Guide To The Leading Top 500 Lawyers in Canada. He is peer selected annually for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada© for environmental law and municipal law. Marc is named "Environmental Lawyer of the Year" for 2019 in Toronto by The Best Lawyers in Canada©. Marc is also ranked "Most Frequently Recommended" by The Canadian Legal Lexpert® directory and ranked "AV® Preeminent™" by peers in Martindale-Hubbell. He is also named annually in both the international Who's Who Legal—Environment and Who's Who Legal—Canada. Marc is called to the Bar in Ontario and British Columbia.

Bianca Salive, BES, J.D.
Associate lawyer at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP. 

Bianca practices environmental law, litigation, and Indigenous legal issues. She draws on her background in environmental studies and business to assist clients with complex environmental legal problems.

Bianca helps clients to understand and comply with a variety of municipal, provincial and federal environmental laws. She also has experience assisting clients with managing environmental liabilities. Bianca advocates for clients in environmental civil proceedings, administrative proceedings, and regulatory prosecutions. She also advises clients on Indigenous consultation obligations. Bianca is called to the Bar of Ontario.