Mr. Speaker, the government has demonstrated that it is very concerned about the management of toxic substances in our environment.
In the last two budgets we committed over $82 million to the research and management of toxic substances. Bill C-32, the renewed Canadian Environmental Protection Act, will go further in protecting our environment. We will be able to analyze 23,000 substances currently in use in the country and use prevention planning to eliminate them. We will use virtual elimination to get rid of the most toxic substances.