Mr. Speaker, when the tar ponds operating permit was established in 1988 it was established according to available environmental guidelines at that time.
When in 1992 the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment improved the guidelines to ensure that they were more stringent with respect to PCB incineration, the project in Nova Scotia in question was voluntarily submitted to those guidelines.
As I stated yesterday and in my previous answer, we are working with the Government of Nova Scotia to ensure that not only the incineration be below the acceptable guidelines but also that the regulations generally be changed to reflect that.