Mr. Speaker, the commissioner of the environment has just released a report with some very interesting facts on pesticides.
It is government policy to re-evaluate all 405 pesticides on the market, by 2006, although this process has been under way for years and today only six have been re-evaluated. All six now are either restricted in use or banned outright. At this rate, they are going to have to re-evaluate one pesticide every two days to meet the deadline.
Will the Minister of Health guarantee that these re-evaluations will in fact be completed by 2006?