Mr. Speaker, the Minister of the Environment is moving ahead with her plans to ban MMT, a gasoline additive.
The minister will not use federal environmental laws to ban the substance because she cannot. There is no independent evidence to prove MMT harms Canadians, the environment or cars in Canada. If the minister bans MMT without environmental laws she will likely find herself defending the ban under the laws governing free trade.
Considering the legal difficulties of an arbitrary ban of MMT, why is the minister still moving ahead with the ban?