Mr. Chairman, with amendment BQ-9, we wish that Bill C-30 in clause 10, be amended by adding after line 18 on page 6 the following:
(1.1) The minister may not publish the notice referred to in subsection (1) if the notice is directed at a person or class of persons in a province in respect of which a notice referred in subsection 10.1(1) is issued dealing with the same substances as the notice referred to in subsection (1).
The purpose of this amendment is to ensure that when a notice of equivalency has been issued to a province, the Minister of the Environment not be constrained to publish this notice because a notice of equivalency has already been accepted and I emphasize that term. This is simply a matter of consistency and concordance with the territorial approach.