Thank you, and thank you again to the committee for the hard work on Bill C-36. I'd like to also thank the member for the question on the very important issue of lead.
I announced this week the regulations on consumer products containing lead, and these regulations will limit the lead content in certain products, including surface paints on children's toys, mouthpieces or musical instruments, and many other products that children may come into contact with, put in their mouths.
These challenges are another step in our government's implementation of the lead risk reduction strategy for consumer products to establish allowable lead limits in a variety of consumer products, particularly those that are used for children, but not exclusively. One example that we use all the time is pencils. We chew on pencils even as adults. So that's one of the areas we've targeted.
As the member is well aware, our government also proposed the Canada consumer product safety act, which is currently before the Senate, and I hope it will pass without further delay. Once it is passed into law, the act will modernize the government's approach to consumer product safety and include new measures such as the ability of Health Canada to order mandatory recalls of consumer products that represent an unreasonable danger to human health or safety and/or mandatory reporting of incidents or deaths from any consumer products. So we have initiatives like the consumer product safety legislation, Bill C-36, which would really give us the authority to respond and remove unsafe products from the marketplace.
Thank you for the question.