Thank you.
Yes, we have, obviously, looked at this chemicals management plan. As you know, CEPA, the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, required the Department of the Environment and the Department of Health to do a categorization of the domestic substances list. It's a long list of 23,000 chemicals.
They did this screening, a mechanical exercise determining which ones were candidates for further risk assessment, and they came up with a list of 4,300. This chemicals management plan is a response of the government to deal with this new priority list of substances over the next while.
We looked at the plan. The plan was already being implemented. It had been piloted. We saw some of the decisions coming out of that. We looked at the capacity of the departments to deal with this new priority list of thousands of substances. In the past, the government had a smaller list of substances, but it took forever to do the assessment. So we wanted to see if it had learned some lessons and would be able to streamline the process for assessing while still maintaining the scientific rigour to do the proper assessments.
We saw that all the pieces were in place and that money was available. That's why, when we looked at the overall situation, we had to conclude that progress was satisfactory. But the work isn't over, obviously. This is work for the long term. But progress today is satisfactory, because all the pieces of the puzzle are in place and there's actual, real work happening on the ground.