Thank you to both of you. It's interesting information, but I wish I had half an hour to ask questions, so we'll probably need to have another meeting.
My first question is to Mr. Morin. There are two unique mandatory duties under CEPA that you don't see very often in legislation, certainly environmental, and they're mandatory duties on your Minister of Health. Under both sections 55 and 45, where information comes to her attention that there may be a relationship between toxins or air pollutants and illness or health, the minister is required to act. She is obligated to act, so I have two questions for you.
Has there ever been a study initiated by your minister on the health impacts of coal-fired power on Canadians? I'm not aware there has been. The Canadian Medical Association issued a report on that. As a result, Alberta has acted. The federal government, as far as I'm aware, has done nothing.
The second study under those provisions is one that the first nations in Fort Chipewyan have been requesting for decades, and that is a health study on the relationship between the air pollutants from the oil sands and the health effects they're suffering.
I would like to hear why there has been no action on that mandatory duty, on either of those two issues.