Thank you, Paul.
Let me go back to the problem with the little magnets.
The bill would require the distributors of a product to provide us with incident reports. When the little magnets came loose, those were incidents. Some children swallowed them and had health problems as a result.
Under this bill, the incident reports would give us reasonable grounds to conduct investigations and inspections of the product in question, including getting samples to test in order to determine the cause of the problem in our laboratory here in Ottawa. The general prohibition allows us to take immediate corrective action such as taking the product off the market if it poses a real danger to children's health.
Under the current Hazardous Products Act, we would just have to wait until distributors took corrective action to fix the problem on a voluntary basis, or wait for a regulation to be put into effect, which could be a very long process.
As for targeted surveillance, as Paul mentioned, the incident reports will allow us to develop a database of information that will help us to identify potential problems beforehand. That means better focus for our inspections and for our actions in dealing with problems before they happen. With so many products on the market, we cannot inspect everything. The reports and the database that we are going to develop will give us a better ability to zero in on problems wherever they are to be found.