Now, there are two major files that are raised in those discussions between the federal government and the provinces. There is the matter of clean air and the four pollutants that will be regulated, and then the issue of wastewater that will be dealt with shortly.
How can you explain that, in your presentation, you said that the task of regulating the 323 discrete substances covered by the National Pollutant Release Inventory and the 60 elements found in the appendix is an insurmountable one? How are we to interpret that when an official from the department in Sweden told us that her country has done so in little time? Are you in the process of reinventing the wheel with respect to those 400 products? Has not Sweden not already established standards? Is it normal to be in such a situation, where Canada has to reinvent the wheel to set objectives for those elements? Sweden has already had functional objectives in place for a number of years.