Industry committee  It's not being implemented to the extent it should be and to the extent that Treasury Board would expect it to be. I think there are two reasons for that. I think one is we have regulators who are not as familiar as they should be with all the steps they should be taking and we h

Industry committee  Yes, I did at one point.

Industry committee  Yes.

Industry committee  Certainly, the first point I touched on is essential. The people regulating need to understand the sector. Before they undertake a regulation, they need to take the time to meet with the industry that they're regulating and have those conversations, so they actually know what the

Industry committee  That is not what Treasury Board is asking. It's not a requirement of a regulator to actually know the sector they're regulating at all. There's only so much you can do through a formal consultation process to actually get that understanding. I knew that as a regulator myself. I d

Industry committee  I think potentially the Canada School of Public Service has a role to play. I've spoken to Neil Bouwer over there about perhaps being a conduit to bring together industry sectors and regulators to have very focused, detailed education for people working in those specific sectors.

Industry committee  I think it's so important for the people who actually regulate industry to understand what the industry does and how it works. We find more and more frequently that while there may be people within departments who have regulatory expertise, they don't actually understand the indu

Industry committee  I'll use a great example of a regulatory initiative we recently went through whereby we were asked to relabel all of the products in Canada, all of the Consumer Health Products in Canada. The lack of understanding of how we actually package products led to the case now where our

Industry committee  We're actually doing a study right now, as I mentioned, with Deloitte. We've just started looking at Canada's competitiveness. It's to try to assess where we are in relation to some of the major trading partners. Our study looks at Canada in relation to the United States, in rela

Industry committee  Our sector is highly regulated. The testimony I heard on Tuesday talked about just running any kind of a business and all the red tape that's involved in that. That applies to our sector as well, just the red tape involved in running a business and the CRA and all of that. On top

Industry committee  Good afternoon, Mr. Chair and ladies and gentlemen of the committee. My name is Karen Proud. I'm the President of Consumer Health Products Canada. I'm joined at the table by my colleague Adam Gibson, our newly minted Vice-President of Public Affairs, who has been with the associ

Justice committee  I'm happy to start off. Maybe I'll start with your second question first. As we're all aware, this is a practice that is going on currently. Incorporation by reference is a tool that is being used by many departments. A dynamic or ambulatory reference is being used, and—I speak

Justice committee  Yes, that's absolutely correct.

Justice committee  Well, I think that's precisely the concern that's trying to be addressed through Bill S-2, and in my words, tying the hands of departments to be able to use ambulatory references. As we recommend, we don't think the proper oversight exists right now for the practice that is going

Justice committee  Similar to the cabinet directive on law-making that the Treasury Board has put out, it would dictate to departments the sorts of consultation that need to take place before a document could be incorporated by reference, the sorts of documents that can be incorporated by reference