Mary Lou McDonald is a founding member and president of the Canadian group Safe Food Matters Inc. (SFM). She wrote SFM’s notice of objection (NoO) to the 2017 re-registration of glyphosate, and is now working with Stockwoods LLP on an appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal.
Mary Lou is a lawyer, trained at the University of Calgary, and over her 27 year career has practised natural resources law in Calgary (at what is now Norton Rose Fulbright), and renewable energy law in Toronto (as in-house counsel for Algonquin Power, Sprott Renewables and then Potentia Renewables). She is currently counsel for SFM.
Mary Lou practices yoga and meditation, and is committed to the high road and staying positive.
The Pest Management Regulatory Agency has been told by the court it needs to better explain how it is protecting Canadians and the environment from the risks of pesticides.
Canada’s three-year phaseout of the toxic insecticide chlorpyrifos risks ongoing harms, as well as dumping of this product on our market, write Meg Sears and Mary Lou McDonald.
