Fisheries committee  First of all, you need to understand that the risk assessment approach, that method, is more of a political process and a policy process than it is a science process.

Fisheries committee  We've had risk assessment—the really numerical models that try to estimate, to envision what the impact of a certain activity might be on the environment. There are so many uncertainties. Risk assessment methodologies started out, and this is where they have their history, in fig

Fisheries committee  Well, that's a really good example, because risk assessment tries to control the damage but not prevent the damage, and that's the distinction. Risk assessments are about controlling as opposed to preventing. The question is what alternative technologies there are in place. Wha

Fisheries committee  I'm going to wrap it up.

Fisheries committee  All right. In fact, I'm just wrapping up. So I won't go into the other example. In the case of Bennett in Belledune, it seems that neither the federal nor provincial government wanted to take responsibility for assessing the potential impacts of atmospheric depositions from this

Fisheries committee  Good morning. On behalf of the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Mr. Chairman, I would like to thank the committee for inviting us to participate. But particularly, I'd like to thank the honourable member from the Bloc Québécois for the Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine area, M