Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Yes, indeed, under the chemicals management plan that was just announced, there will be regular biomonitoring of a survey of Canadians. StatsCan will be doing it for us, and the first tranche of the survey is going to start this summer. We will know what chemicals are in people and in what quantities, and we'll be able to compare across the country. We will therefore be able to start thinking back about questions like, if this is what's there, how did it get into their bodies? We can then start looking to where the modalities or the vehicles will be for that. So that should help us a lot.
What we have to do with the Hazardous Products Act right now—and what you see reflected in this table—is react to the whole variety of products that are currently on the market and try to identify which ones may be problematic. From there, we have to do the studies and take them off if necessary. As my deputy just said, because you can get things off quicker and it's to the benefit of Canadians, our interest is to work with manufacturers rather than having to use the heavy hand of a regulation, which is lengthy and costly.