Environment committee  Well, sir, I'm not sure this is in my area of expertise either, but I would answer it in a manner similar to the way I answered a question previously, that is, I can see a role for government agencies and federal agencies in encouraging a change in attitude in the population. It'

Environment committee  Well, sir, I really and truly believe this is not something that I can answer. I'm a geneticist and a doctor, so I'm not sure that's where I can give any advice.

Environment committee  No, actually, it's quite an easy question to answer, and I'm glad you asked it. Dioxins—the worst of the products of the incinerator—produced in Florida have been detected in our Great Lakes here, in Lake Ontario. They can travel thousands and thousands of kilometres. So yes, yo

Environment committee  Yes. I understand it's a very good and clean procedure, and I encourage it, but I'm not an expert on it.

Environment committee  Thank you very much for having me here.

Environment committee  I can't answer that, but I imagine it's because they have put out such enormous amounts of poisons that even the local agencies have been unwilling to allow them to carry on exceeding the so-called limits.

Environment committee  They have no way of stating that, because they have not built the plant. He has repeatedly made such statements, both here to your committee and elsewhere all over Northumberland County, but they have no idea what their emissions are going to be, because they've never built a pla

Environment committee  Well, what he's talking about is guesswork. They've produced a whole lot of figures. The environmental screening report that was published comes out with these figures, and that's what I'm referring to when I say that they themselves admit they would be putting out these poison

Environment committee  They have no way of knowing what they're going to put out. Everything that they've claimed would be the figures is what I call guesswork; they calculated it from certain figures, they multiply this by that, and then they get a figure. The Government of Ontario, incidentally, doe

Environment committee  Absolutely. There's not the slightest question. There is no incinerator yet constructed that doesn't produce dioxins, and I'm delighted to hear the sentence that you read out there.

Environment committee  Actually, my name is “Blecher”.

Environment committee  I included a link in that from which you can find that environmental screening report.

Environment committee  No, sir. I have not. The process is the following. When a company applies to put something up like this incinerator, it goes through two different parallel processes. They have to—

Environment committee  Sorry?

Environment committee  You mean the original long letter I wrote to the minister? No, I've never had a reply from the minister.