Thank you for the comments around the strollers we're dealing with, and the cadmium. It's almost like every week we are recalling some product from the market or advising Canadians not to buy. We don't have the recall power, but we are advising industry not to distribute.
Some of the key elements of this bill will be very good improvements to the current legislation we have. The 40-year-old legislation is so outdated. Among the key elements of this bill would be a section that deals with a general prohibition that prohibits the industry from supplying products that are unreasonably hazardous, so there's a prohibition clause where if it's hazardous then we have a mechanism to prohibit the industry from distributing the unsafe product.
The other element is that this legislation would give us recall authority in order to recall products from the market or take other corrective measures. For example, we can issue a stop-sale or order that a product be relabelled. Perhaps the instructions were not quite clear, so we can order relabelling of that product. And to be able to carry these out if the supplier fails to do so, then we have the mechanisms to follow up.
We also have mandatory reporting, which is very important, which requires not only the industry but also the consumer to report safety incidents or accidents and what not to us. Once we have this information we'll be able to better track what's out there and investigate.
It also requires the industry to be able to produce to us test results of products that they've produced, tested, and determined safe before distribution, so we'd be able to access that type of information to determine if a product is safe or not if an incident had been reported.
The industry will also have an obligation to maintain documents that outline where they have distributed this product so that if in fact we have to do mandatory reporting we'd be able to work with the industry to see where they sold this product and have a better idea as to the level of distribution of that unsafe product. They have to now demonstrate to us where that product was sent and sold for us to do proper monitoring.
These are big improvements to the 40-year-old legislation that will give us the authorities to respond quickly to protect the health and safety of Canadians.