Richard Cannings at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

Thank you.

I'd like to pose this question to Mr. Carreau.

This spring we passed the new Canadian Environmental Protection Act here, which included, for the first time, the right for Canadians to live in a clean and healthy environment, but that only extended to the confines of CEPA.

I have a private member's bill, Bill C-219, on the Canadian environmental bill of rights, which would extend that to all other federal pieces of legislation that deal with a clean environment.

I'm just wondering if you could comment on those other pieces of legislation that Health Canada or others might deal with and help regulate clean water in Canada. What other pieces of legislation, besides CEPA, would that encompass, and why is it important to extend that right to those pieces of legislation?