Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Every day we hear of new cancers and new diseases that are plaguing our society and people's lives. We are wondering where these diseases and these illnesses come from, and many scientists really don't know all of them. But there's incredible concern about how we are dealing with our own substances within our own countries and how we deal with the labelling of these particular substances. The categorization—how we have managed to define things—is extremely important in establishing the body of environmental law necessary to deal with this. So words do have importance, and categorizations are extremely important and play a major role. That's why I am concerned about whether there's going to be any weakening of this type of categorization and labelling from the exercise we're going through.
I was quite interested in hearing all the witnesses who came forward and what they had to say. I thought they provided interesting perspectives. I strongly would encourage the government.
Maybe Mr. Moffet could comment on the fact that the government is going to be taking a very important role in sorting through these different action plans and categorizations, and even on how they're going to prioritize all this. Certainly education awareness needs to be very much in place with the government action plan.
I want to know how the government is going to respond to the concerns all of us have with the emergence of all the new cancers that are coming into our society. I think it's very important that we do not in any way, shape, or form weaken these definitions, but strengthen them.