Public Safety committee  They are still entitled to regular parole hearings, but never should such an individual be rewarded with a transfer from maximum security to medium security, when at the time of the transfer, the offender still shows no remorse, no empathy and no insight into his crimes. The medical evidence was that he was beyond treatment. It sends the wrong message. It sanitizes the full brutality of his unspeakable crimes. It's no answer that the perimeter security is the same as maximum security, that medium security offers better treatment programs for a person who cannot realistically be treated, or that by giving him more freedoms and privileges in medium security, he might be more manageable.

Foreign Affairs  As a mother, my heart aches for those families. Survivors are being deprived of clean drinking water, food, medicine, sanitation, fuel and electricity. More than 1.7 million Palestinians are displaced from their homes in their ancestral homeland. Among them are people with disabilities, women, children, seniors and beloved family members of hundreds of people in Canada.

Health of Animals Act  Our members’ operations often host visitors to demonstrate how the land is managed or their animals are cared for, but there is a key distinction between those who willingly follow prescribed, strict biosecurity and sanitation practices and those who willfully endanger animal health, welfare, and food safety. The letter goes on to quote Megz Reynolds, an executive director of the Do More Agriculture Foundation, a group that is the national voice and champion for mental health in agriculture.

Transport committee  It seems to me that the costs are the costs. I think the challenge of recovering the headsets and then sanitizing them.... Probably paying to have them mailed back and then sanitizing them could cost more than the headsets. I think you get into one of these things where you have declining returns just through the complicated....

International Trade committee  We know that 1,918 food-contact surface sanitizer products were subject to a Health Canada evaluation when the regulations were amended in 2014. The deregulation hasn't changed much in industrial practice. Food-contact surface sanitizers are still in use, but none is currently approved.

Transport committee  It seems extremely wasteful to send headsets out and not ask for them back. We can sanitize those. I just make the point.

International Trade committee  Current labels are frequently packed with huge amounts of data not needed for the application of the product. In the scope of the new biocides regulations, it was proposed to exclude air sanitizers at this time. During COVID, one of the major requests from customers was to help them sanitize rooms through the use of hand-held sprayers. Huge amounts of sanitizers were sold for this use.

International Trade committee  If I had to guess, I would say that, for this room two and a half years ago, between meetings—assuming you were having meetings—someone would come in after a meeting at eight o'clock at night, don his garb and put on all his PPE, if he was smart. He would spray the entire room with sanitizers. The product would go into the air and then land on a surface. Theoretically, it would disinfect or sanitize the surface. The amount that was done during that period was incredible, the amount of rooms and stuff.

International Trade committee  I know it takes longer than it should right now. There could be as many as 700 to 1,000 sanitizers that are not currently registered that would need to be registered under the new law. I think it's still positive, because in our world, sanitizers are kind of out there. They're not registered well enough.

International Trade committee  This must be done before the plant can restart operations. Currently, sanitizers are the main products that are not regulated. There are currently no companies with a drug identification number, or DIN. No products are registered for this kind of application. In contrast, if we look at the same activity in an American food plant, the sanitizer used in the morning prior to the day's operations will have EPA certification.

International Trade committee  Currently, the disinfectants and sanitizers are regulated under two federal acts: the Food and Drugs Act and the Pest Control Products Act. While disinfectants and sanitizers are similar, their regulation under the separate frameworks creates duplication of review and two separate sets of user fees.

International Trade committee  FHCP strongly supports the proposed biocides regulations. The two key types of products captured by the proposed regulations—surface sanitizers and disinfectants—are currently governed under two separate pieces of legislation, the Food and Drugs Act and the Pest Control Products Act, and regulated by separate agencies. Given that these products have similar risk profiles and are used under similar conditions, this approach is cumbersome and inefficient for both government and industry.

International Trade committee  That said, as you heard from the government officials during your last meeting, Health Canada defines biocides as “surface sanitizers” and “disinfectants” that are regulated under separate regulations in Canada. Currently, disinfectants are regulated under the Food and Drugs Act, while surface sanitizers fall under the Pest Control Products Act.

International Trade committee  I'd like to back up and learn a bit more about biocides in general. It's clear that they are sanitizer types of things that you would use to clean surfaces or skin or whatever. You mentioned the impact of COVID on that supply, and why we needed more sanitizers. I have a lot of distilleries in my riding.

International Trade committee  The regulations here apply to the biocides, whereas there is a slightly different pathway for the hand sanitizers.