Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to welcome the witnesses before this committee.
Before talking about the substance of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, I would like to remind you that this legislation was passed on September 14, 1999. At the time, the government had a limited period of time to categorize existing substances. The government was supposed to complete its inventory of the 23 000 available substances by September 14, 2006, a week ago. We were supposed to have a detailed inventory. We have learned through the media that the government has completed that assessment and we have even learned that the list would include close to 4000 bad substances, of which about 400 are toxic.
My question to Mr. Moffett is simple: can you make a commitment to table before the committee, in the next few days, the list of products that are considered toxic?