Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Again, this is a detailed amendment. I should have credited the expert work of the lawyers at the Canadian Environmental Law Association, particularly senior counsel Joseph Castrilli, for assistance in the drafting of these amendments.
By the way, of course we all know how much the legislative clerks help us. You can imagine that when I ask them for amendments, they're four and five pages long, and they deliver them on time. I'm very grateful. This one is four and a half pages to replace a single paragraph.
What you have in Bill S-5 is subclause 60(1), which has the requirement to submit certain plans. What amendment PV-12 does is ensure that we have content for the components that a pollution prevention plan should consider.
Even though my previous amendment making such work mandatory has been defeated, this would still be very helpful in setting out, in those cases when the minister requires a pollution prevention plan, what the content of that plan should be.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.