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Environment committee We're not suggesting that a risk-based approach is not appropriate. What we were suggesting is that the number of incident reports related to counterfeit products is not a reasonable proxy for a more thorough risk assessment. As the commissioner pointed out, many people aren't even aware that they should report these incidents to Health Canada when such an incident occurs or when they become aware of something, yet we've found—or it's our understanding, at least—that this is what the department uses to determine the risks of counterfeit in e-commerce in the Canadian marketplace.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee I think we have to defer to the department on that.
June 2nd, 2016Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee I think there was some confusion within the agency as to whether they're cyclical reviews. The 15-year reviews would be an adequate substitute for a special review. Many of the pesticides they decided not to conduct special reviews on were either planned to be or in the process of being subjected to that thorough a 15-year cyclical review.
February 23rd, 2016Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee Some oil and gas operations are exempt from reporting. Others.... I think Environment Canada would be in a better position to respond to that. Fracking operations have been exempted because, generally, I think, the size of the operations are very small. There has to be some threshold above which reporting is required, and below that threshold it's not required.
May 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee We did a short study on it in response to three environmental petitions that the office had received in the previous few years. Environment Canada committed to undertaking a review of the national pollutant release inventory to determine whether fracking operations should be compelled to report their releases to the government under this inventory.
May 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee It's been a while since we've looked at this, but my recollection is that in 2010, when we did look at it, we saw recognized standards from the World Meteorological Organization for well-designed water monitoring systems. I guess they look at the parameters, but they look at the geography and the parameters that need to be monitored and give guidelines for coverage and so on.
May 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson
Environment committee Organization.
May 12th, 2015Committee meeting
Andrew Ferguson