The fundamental concern of the department is that the Canadian Environmental Protection Act already does this work. It has gone through an extensive exercise to prioritize all chemicals in use in Canada, at the direction of Parliament. It went through all 23,000 chemicals in use in this country and prioritized based on a number of specific criteria: the potential for exposure, and whether they are a hazard to human health, to the environment, and to that on which life depends on this planet. It is quickly and systematically working to move through all of those, not just from the point of view of consumer products but from the point of view of industrial uses in factories and releases to the environment. It considers cumulative exposures. It looks at exposures not just from consumer products but through all routes.
So this in fact is already being done through another piece of legislation, where the work has been done. We have been directed by the department through Parliament to do this work, and we are in fact busy doing that.
The other concern is that to just do consumer products when you're taking a more integrated approach, looking at all uses, would create some confusion within the industry and the marketplace about not wanting to do it in two separate places.