work on the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry and the subsequent publication of The Berger Report. As Commissioner, Berger recommended that, "on environmental grounds, no pipeline be built and no energy corridor be established across the Northern Yukon" and that any pipeline construction be postponed until native claims could be settled. Despite his belief in the judicial system, Berger acknowledged that there were certain issues that could be dealt with outside of the courts. Swayze argues that "[t]he philosophy inherent in all thirteen" of the reports of British Columbia's Royal Commission on Family and Children's Law, on which Berger served as a commissioner, "is that legal sanctions should, in many cases, be a last resort, and to this end recommendations focused on the effective use of human rather than legislated solutions." Publications Footnotes References External links 1933 births 2021 deaths 20th-century Canadian lawyers Judges in British Columbia Leaders of the British Columbia CCF/NDP Members of the House of Commons of Canada from British Columbia Members of the Order of British Columbia New Democratic Party MPs Officers of the Order of Canada Politicians from Victoria, British Columbia University of British Columbia alumni 21st-century Canadian lawyers