I think that's right, and I agree with John's remarks that there seems to be something, in terms of political will, that's been lacking. But somehow that political will has been disseminated throughout the bureaucracy.
My goal over the last ten years was to figure out how we can get mercury out of the environment. So we would go to Environment Canada and ask, why can't we get mercury out of household thermometers? Most other countries are doing that. They'd say, well, that's a Health Canada issue--why don't you go talk to Health Canada? We'd go talk to Health Canada and they'd say, well, you know, as long as the mercury stays in that thermometer, it's not hazardous, so that's really an Environment Canada issue, once it breaks. So we go back to Environment Canada, and they'd say, well, we can't actually deal with that because we don't have whatever authority—which apparently is vested entirely in CEPA. So the question is if all the authority is in CEPA, why isn't it being used?
Unfortunately there needs to be some onus coming back to us as stakeholders from the government around why it isn't being used. I'm not a lawyer; it's not my job to figure out why it's not being used. I know it's not being used; that's clear. So I'm just trying to point out the many areas where it clearly should be used, and it's not.