Mr. Michael Martin at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On May 12th, 2008. See this statement in context.

May 12th, 2008 / 5:05 p.m.

Assistant Deputy Minister, Strategic Policy Branch, Department of the Environment

I have to confess I'm not an expert on the Swedish situation.

I certainly did not use the word “insurmountable”. I simply said that if the bill required us to launch a regulatory exercise to make regulations in each of these areas, there are 323 items in the National Pollutant Release Inventory, and therefore to make regulations affecting each of those would be a very extensive exercise.

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