I'm sure that Cynthia or Gordon would know this better than I do, but I think you're completely right. The complexity of the interactions with society is much greater with CEPA than it is with the Fisheries Act, in my opinion. Not the least of those is the constitutionality issue; it is a reality. No one disputes that the federal government has constitutional authority over fish and water; it's much more complex in the case of CEPA-managed substances or CEPA-assessed substances, as we found out in the case of road salt. So I don't think these two statutes are actually easy to compare, when you look at them very carefully.
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