I think I'll speak to each separately, Mr. Chair, because they do speak to different issues, unlike the last ones that dealt with FATCA more or less at once.
This is what I'm proposing to do here, Mr. Chair. At clause 115 on page 97, there's an opportunity to do something that's a lacuna in Canadian regulatory practice. It's been identified by the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development that we are not regulating the hazardous products used in what's colloquially called fracking, hydraulic fracturing operations for the extraction of oil and gas.
What is proposed by the Green Party, for subparagraph (l.1) in subclause 115(3), is to add to the list of other kinds of hazardous materials that are used in Canada and regulated:
(l.1) requiring any supplier who sells or imports a product, mixture, material or substance injected into the ground in hydraulic fracturing operations for the extraction of oil and gas to make its complete chemical composition and toxicity publicly available;
It's a transparency clause. Unlike my attempt to ban asbestos, this measure is not an attempt at anything more than regulatory transparency. As some of you may recall, the Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development reported that he was surprised to find that Environment Canada didn't know the chemical composition of these substances.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.