Environment committee  In terms of your first question, I don't know if enforcement is quite the.... What we are talking about beyond the assessments, beyond discovering what the problems are, is what we are doing about them. We should think of the act as the directions to the bureaucracy and our depar

Environment committee  I've gotten confused now. I think we're looking for the committee to do the job they feel they need to do, in terms of how long it takes. As you said, there is a one-year legislative timeline. We think the travelling is important; we think a comprehensive and thorough review i

Environment committee  Well, in terms of that being a quick timeline because of how long it's going to take to get CEPA amended, I think in addition to strengthening CEPA, what we're looking for, for a lot of the chemicals that are going to be coming out of the categorization process that ends this Sep

Environment committee  I went to one of them. I have a little bit of a sense that they did go across the country. I'm not sure to what extent they reached the sectors that we would think they would need to reach; I can't tell you. The importance, of course, with consultation is always whether it's bein

Environment committee  I wouldn't consider myself an expert on the U.S. regulation, but I think it would be important in terms of getting a sense of where it is that they have tools that we don't have, that we need, and where it is that they're simply using their tools better than we are, that they're

Environment committee  I believe so, yes.

Environment committee  Oui. I think air pollution is probably where we have the strongest evidence and where we're the most sure there are health problems occurring. In a sense, we should think it's inexcusable that where we have no debate whatsoever, no controversy over whether our air pollution and o

Environment committee  We can definitely help with coming up with solutions, yes.

Environment committee  The criteria air pollutants that are considered to be toxic and the greenhouse gases are now listed under CEPA. They're scheduled under CEPA, which gives the federal government the authority to regulate them under CEPA. Again, I'm a physician and my expertise is more on the hea

Environment committee  Yes. I think we need mechanisms to get us from the point where we've scheduled nitrous oxide as toxic under CEPA and we need to do something about it. We need something that gets us to the point where we've done something about it, whether through national air quality standards o

Environment committee  I think to a certain degree it's difficult for us to assess the level of funding. Certainly we get feedback from Environment Canada and Health Canada that they need more resources to get this job done. I think with most of these things, and in this case, it's really a combination

Environment committee  There are certainly other models that CEPA can look to, like the new pesticide act that has come into force that allows citizens to be able to look at test data on site. There's the U.S. pesticide legislation and other models in legislation related to the environment that provide

Environment committee  My history doesn't go back to 1999, unfortunately. One example of each, for instance, would be that when virtual elimination was put in the act, I think we would have said right at that time that the need for there to be what's called a level of quantification...that you can't

Environment committee  I would agree, in the sense that part of what we're looking for in the act is more structure to make sure things get done. I think the ministries will tell you that they've often met the timelines in the act, and it's our sense that the lack of timelines and obligations within th

Environment committee  To answer your first question, it's hard for us to imagine that you're going to be able to get through this very quickly, in the next month or two, although I don't have that much experience with how fast and efficient a committee can be. The other part of it for us is that CEPA