Health committee  As well as the follow-up on complaints, yes, because we don't send our inspectors out only to look at compliance with one regulation. It's not that now we have these two new lead regulations we'll have to add a layer of enforcement. Our inspectors are schooled in the full body

Health committee  Small parts.

Health committee  The new regulations become part of the body of regulations that we enforce on a cyclical basis. We are currently in the process of doubling the number of our inspectors. It's an area to which government has allocated some resources. We do cyclical enforcement through a process of

Health committee  I believe I talked about this when we appeared before you on the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. Currently, we have 46 inspectors, to which we are adding 26 new inspectors thanks to funding from the food and consumer safety action plan. We are in the middle of the implemen

Health committee  Yes.

Health committee  I would appreciate the opportunity to provide that information to the committee afterwards. I didn't come with that information. My apologies.

Health committee  May I just clarify? Are you speaking in the context of the Canada consumer safety action plan?

Health committee  With the new legislation, we will have a suite of new tools that we don't currently have with the Hazardous Products Act. They include mandatory recall, which we don't currently have. They include the ability for us to demand tests and studies from industry at the highest levels

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for the opportunity to appear today to discuss the consumer product safety-related aspects of the Public Health Agency's “Child and Youth Injury in Review, 2009 Edition”. As you said, my name is Athana Mentzelopoulos. I'm director general of the Consumer

Health committee  Yes, Madam Chair.

Health committee  I would say that given how it's subsequently defined in some of the policy elaboration we're doing, including through the consultation we're doing on mandatory reporting, no, it's not too broad. I think that in program delivery we are always going to have a responsibility to pro

Health committee  I'll ask Robert to fill in the blanks. He was there personally during some of the discussions. Essentially, there was a recognition that we needed more resources amongst our cadre of inspectors. We've done the analysis to ascertain, for example, where we have.... We want to go

Health committee  I'm not sure how helpful we can be in the specific details. We may want to revisit it with information about each of the amendments. In general, the concerns that were voiced at the Senate were very much related to inspectors' powers. The changes made between Bill C-6 and Bill

Health committee  Madam Chair, the changes that we've made between Bill C-6 and Bill C-36 really speak to some of the concerns that were expressed around inspectors' powers. For example, there's concern that an inspector might be able to enter a home for the purposes of looking at goods that were

Health committee  I would just add that Fisher-Price was something we worked on with the United States. They had received information through their own mandatory reporting system. We worked closely with them because we knew that the supply had been in Canada as well. It was a joint effort.