Just to be clear, I think what you're getting at is that CEPA deals with regulated communities that are dealt with by other departments.
There are many mechanisms to ensure that Health Canada and Environment Canada are not at cross purposes to Transport Canada or Agriculture. In CEPA 1999, there is an authority to recognize that other acts have functions like CEPA in reviewing new substances before they come to market and doing an assessment. In those cases CEPA is essentially a benchmark, so the Governor in Council decided that where other pieces of legislation were equivalent to CEPA, there are schedules, and those departments do work that's similar but for different clients. So for seeds, feeds, fertilizers, Health of Animals Act, pesticides acts, they are looking after new substances in their domain and with their clients.
There is a lot of coordination and collaboration between risk assessors, because sometimes something is used in more than one area. Something might be used in a pesticide and it might be used in an industrial process as well. So the risk assessors have regular mechanisms for communicating with each other to make sure they're handling those new substance assessments in a coordinated way.
There are other ways we could regulate something under CEPA, but another body is already regulating it. A good example that we've dealt with in the last few years is radionuclides. These were radionuclides from mills and mining. The substance was found to meet the section 64 criteria under CEPA, but rather than having Environment Canada and Health Canada become a regulator, there's already the Nuclear Safety Commission. Environment Canada entered into a memorandum of understanding, and the Nuclear Safety Commission has the same authorities. It is actually managing this and reporting to Environment Canada on how well that's going.
There are other areas where we simply collaborate, such as Transport Canada. We coordinate with Transport Canada, which is doing other safety issues on a regular basis, and Environment Canada is regulating fuels and emissions from cars. It's a regular, ongoing cooperation between the two departments.
So I think it depends on the issue. There are several different mechanisms we're using, from formal memoranda of understanding to informal cooperative mechanisms.