What I wanted to say was that the biggest lack is of political will, and I'll tell you where the origins are.
First, I'm concerned that you don't just talk about consumer products, because this act is the only federal tool for regulating trans-boundary pollution and major toxins like mercury, lead, PAHs, and on and on, dioxins. These are important. These are huge sources of public health risk.
It used to be that, when major projects were proposed, the federal government would intervene. Then slowly it pulled out, and so now when major projects are reviewed in Canada, there is no federal presence. There is just an across-the-board lack of political will for the federal government to exercise its responsibilities under CEPA.