Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I'm sorry, I don't know at this moment whether we have regulations or plan to do regulations of that sort. But we can find that information for you.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It would certainly be within the power of the act.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's hard to tell you on the spot. We've done a plan of work for 30 regulations to cover more than 80% of the use in three important sectors. To understand what “significant” and “increasing” applies to and to determine how many more regulations that would be, and then to try to

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Best efforts in two years?

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  For a great number of us who work at Natural Resources Canada, our business is energy efficiency regulations. We are world leaders in many of those regulations. When we sat down and thought out what this piece of work would look like, we did our very best to design a program that

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's as you suggest; it's a bit of both. It's partly that the resources we have allocated to us require this timeframe, but it's not only that problem--some of the communities we deal with on these products are the same communities. Just to take one example of the member's sugg

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I think the proposals we put forward were fairly aggressive, and in fact Canada already leads a lot of the world with a lot of products. The way we wanted to proceed was to implement the four years that the government has proposed to do some 30 regulations. That doesn't mean we c

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  Yes, it is the usual practice to consult provincial ministries. My apologies, but I will answer in English. I am more sure of myself in that language. We consult. That's part of the time it takes to do 30 regulations, not in one year but in four years. On each regulation we con

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We are currently planning, as the member said, to do about 30 regulations over a period of four years. To implement the amendment in one year, in my view, is not technically feasible. It would require us to do four times as many in a year, and it's not a matter of just working fo

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  I believe it goes on to say that it's if “the information has previously been provided”.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  This in fact strengthens the information we get.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  It's not necessarily in this clause, and I don't want to jump ahead, but what we're doing here is making sure of all the information we require. I believe what's underlined is what's new. This is just an additional piece of information.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  The only exemption is if you provided it previously. We don't want to burden the manufacturers with duplicate reporting.

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  We do a careful analysis with the aid of the Department of Justice of all such trade-related issues. We would know going into developing any amendments, and we know from having implemented the Energy Efficiency Act these many years, that we have no issues on that score. In other

Bill C-30 (39th Parliament, 1st Session) committee  There's currently a loophole in the Energy Efficiency Act that allows an organization to import a piece of equipment and to then ship it to another province without meeting the standard.