It's fascinating that he's concerned about the proliferation of lists through creating two lists instead of one.
If I could go back to the virtual elimination point, everything Mr. Moffet said about this amendment, PV-13, would be true if all we were doing was repealing the line found at line 33 on page 8, but we are replacing the language, the very concepts that Mr. Moffet just explained to us were problematic if you couldn't get out and quantify the environment.
I go back to the original Canadian Environmental Protection Act as amended in 1999 so that committee members will have the language fresh in their minds: “the ultimate reduction of the quantity or concentration of the substance in the release below the level of quantification”. That's the language that was problematic.
My amendment replaces that language to focus on virtual elimination by removing the product from commerce. It's straightforward. It does not include anything of the issues that have bedevilled us since 1999.
I don't take away from anything Mr. Moffet said, but since 1999 it's been hard to quantify in the environment, to move towards virtual elimination, which is why my amendment not only restores the virtual elimination act to the Canadian Environmental Protection Act but refines it to eliminate the problems, as Ms. Collins so helpfully pointed out.