Thank you, Madam Chair.
It is an honour for me to be part of your committee today. I am also honoured and pleased to be Kirsty Duncan for a few moments.
Minister, congratulations on your new responsibilities. They are not very new to you as you were appointed a few months ago already, but this is the first opportunity I have had to congratulate you.
I would like to focus, at least at the beginning, on the word “danger” and its definition. In the Canada Labour Code, the definition of “danger” includes:
...any exposure to a hazardous substance that is likely to result in a chronic illness, in disease or in damage to the reproductive system;
The problem is that in your government's new omnibus budget bill—and these bills always come with surprises that have nothing to do with the budget itself—we discover a new definition of the word “danger” that will replace the current one in the Canada Labour Code, where the damage to the reproductive system will not be mentioned.
First, are you aware of this change?