My second question is about virtual elimination. In this document you handed out, you say, and I quote:
Our 2002 report noted no substances have been added to the CEPA virtual elimination list [...]
I find this interesting. Indeed, last Thursday, we considered in the House of Commons a bill introduced by Ms. Minna that would add perfluorooctane sulfonate to the virtual elimination list. A regulation to deal with this substance was published first in the Gazette in 2004 and we are still sitting here wondering when it will be added to the virtual elimination list.
The Commissioner of the Environment made these findings in 2002. How do you explain that a member of Parliament has to introduce a bill in order to force the government to add this substance to the virtual elimination list? Is it due to administrative problems? What reason is there for the government to delay adding substances to the virtual elimination list?