There is much evidence to show that the concept of substitution is one of the highest orders of pollution prevention you can do. The number of substances we're talking about with the government's current friendly amendment is to remove schedule 1 substances, is to look at IRARC, which has, as Mr. Moffet said, 415 on the list, only some of which are airborne, and then it's up to the discretion of the minister as to which other ones come beyond that. We're not talking about going through a substitution analysis of some 23,000 chemicals.
If it's a resource question, we've identified through the literature and our understanding that substitution is one of the better ways to go to prevent pollution in the first place, and my goodness, the excuse of resources simply cannot be applied in this case. We don't have the money to do it, but what we're going to do is go out and spend more money on health care, on fixing people's asthma and respiratory illnesses caused by pollution, which we could have prevented by substituting in the first place. That's the most ridiculous argument I've ever heard.
So let's be clear. We have severely limited the scope of this initial amendment to allow Canada to start to do this in an intelligent way. Clearly the logic bears out that this is a good expenditure of moneys and this is not an extensive list and does not create any new bureaucratic mess for the government. It's the courage of our conviction, folks. Let's just get on with this.