We've been predominantly spending our time on the issues of climate change and target setting, but there are other issues within Bill C-30—air quality, air contaminants, air pollution of different varieties—that have real health effects.
What we've seen is one of the most effective ways for government—and it's not often applied. That's part of the problem. Rather than waiting for Canadians to get sick because of a certain chemical that's being released, they seek substitutions. So a company has the onus when something is listed as toxic to seek out a substitution without even permitting it in its industrial process, thereby not having the negative health affects.
While a lot of our conversation has been on the effects of climate change and the targets, this talks about air pollution in the more traditional sense—that which is causing respiratory illnesses or any other illnesses that can be felt within the Canadian population, usually as a result of industrial processes.
The relevance is that the government has suggested some things to clean up the air. Well, this would go to the heart of it and prevent the pollution from even being released in the first place, because it's not used in the industrial process. The companies are given the onus. Rather than trying to catch up years later with various toxicology studies on Canadians and their health, this just seems like a more intelligent way to go.