Ms. Nathalie Perron at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

On March 17th, 2021. See this statement in context.

March 17th, 2021 / 3:20 p.m.

Director, Waste Reduction and Management Division, Department of the Environment

I hope I understood the question correctly.

In 2016 the regulations were amended to include, within the definition of hazardous waste, a clause that describes where, if an importing country controls or prohibits a waste, then it becomes automatically, under our regulation, hazardous and is controlled. In effect, it has the same outcome as the ban amendment, because any countries who signed on to the ban amendment—

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