Madam Chair, I'm Diane Labelle. I am from the Department of Justice, providing legal services to the Department of Health.
Madam Chair, I would like to draw the committee's attention to the fact that “a danger to human health or safety” is the defined term in the act that provides a certain level of legal certainty for manufacturers, importers, and advertisers, against whom clause 7 applies, so they can understand that it's a hazard posed by a consumer product during or as a result of its normal or foreseeable use.
The amendment before you, starting with “or”, goes beyond this and creates uncertainty, in my view, respectfully, that manufacturers would know what that exposure to a harmful substance released into the environment means with respect to their particular product, because now it goes beyond the scope of use. It could be a product that gets broken up and then gets released into the air, which is not an anticipated or foreseeable use, the structure upon which this bill was built.