Environment committee  I'll provide some insight into that. There is a role for the hazard-based approach, which can be incorporated into CEPA. A heavily weighted priority is given to science when it comes to a risk-based approach. Often, the science doesn't always keep pace with the problems we're f

Environment committee  I think CMP was needed when the results of categorization were completed back in 2006. I think the government has done a fantastic job of trying to move through risk assessments in the context of the CMP focus. I think where it has failed to some degree is ensuring that the pill

Environment committee  I would just add that under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, there's an explicit reference to the principle of polluter pay. Certainly in the context of managing, say, chemicals that are found in products that may end up in the municipal solid waste stream, there is som

Environment committee  Yes. There was an Environmental Bill of Rights, or EBR, registration for a regulatory proposal to deal with end-of-life vehicles in Ontario, which just ended in May. The Ontario government is proposing to create a regulation that will allow for facilities that engage in dismantl

Environment committee  Can I add one comment with regard to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act? It does have jurisdiction in terms of managing chemicals. Some of the chemicals that are being detected in end-of-life vehicles, and certainly the design of vehicles, include chemicals like brominat

Environment committee  Yes, I think the emphasis was around making sure public participation was key with respect to making decisions around Great Lakes management. Certainly from the perspective of specific regulations, quite a few of them may need to be reviewed, phosphorus being one. There are othe

Environment committee  I'm sorry, I don't think so. I'm thinking of the perfluorinated acids, which I'm more familiar with. I know the emerging issue with a lot of these persistent toxic chemicals is that even once there's a regulation in place to eliminate and phase them out, the issue then becomes ar

Environment committee  I'll take that question. You're right, Francis. The categorization process that was required under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act reviewed the 23,000 chemicals that were on the domestic substances list. From that, the seven-year legal obligation was concluded in 2006,

Environment committee  In regard to the original 100 or so chemicals that went through the industry challenge, the government is currently looking at them from the perspective of whether they meet the criteria for being toxic under CEPA, and it is now developing a risk management plan to apply to some

Environment committee  Well, that's not the intent of CEPA, but certainly that's what we'd like to see in the context of the Great Lakes, yes.

Environment committee  I just have one other comment that's in regard to the sustained and needed funding to make sure that toxic chemicals are dealt with adequately within the Great Lakes basin. Thank you.

Environment committee  I'll just touch on a few things that Theresa mentioned. With respect to the loading to the Great Lakes, currently there is no database or inventory of pollutant loadings to the Great Lakes. We wrote a report back in 2010 for which we measured using the national pollutants releas