I'm going to speak further to your suggestion of possibly testing the departments with some ideas. I'm particularly interested in further investigating what Dr. Levy talked about--that is, the issue of attaining standards, the issue of measuring our country's attainment of particular pollution standards, be they ambient air standards, water standards, or whatever.
I'm wondering if there is an interest, and if in fact it's simply because there's no mandate at the moment to investigate ways to ensure that we make and attain measures such as Canada-wide standards for smog. We see very different approaches in Canada and the U.S., and it seems that the only reason for a province to do so--except for doing the right thing, possibly--the only real threat of a province not attaining a standard is potential political embarrassment.
That, from a health point of view, doesn't seem to be quite enough. If there were some mandate given to designate attainment and non-attainment zones, and penalties attached, that might help us a little bit.
I'm wondering if there are any thoughts we can gather on those.