I'll try, yes.
Risk management, to us, is managing the impact that substances can have in their normal use in the environment and managing the potential for misuse in inappropriate areas by educating users on things like best management practices. CFI has developed a very comprehensive science-based program for certified crop advisers to advise farmers on how to manage nutrients properly, whether they're fertilizer nutrients or manure sources or other organic sources, and to ensure there is a balance between the nutrients applied in the field and the nutrients removed in the growing crop. These best management principles are much more effective at helping 240,000 farmers in Canada manage nutrients appropriately than some concept of hiring envirocops to follow along and try to tell these farmers how to operate, which we all know would be completely ineffective, and Environment Canada couldn't possibly manage the resources to do that.
So instead of spending our time on political debates as to whether or not a substance should be labelled in a particular way, we would be much more effective if we looked at what programs can be used in part of the normal economy.
I have a publication on best management practices for fertilizer I'd be pleased to share with you. And while I only speak English, it is in both English and French. I'd be very pleased to share this with you.
Thank you.