Environment committee  The products containing mercury regulations prohibit products from containing mercury unless they are specifically listed as being allowed to contain mercury. The allowances are detailed by levels and by product types, so there's an annex that lays those out. Some of these fluo

Environment committee  The products containing mercury regulations work with the code of practice to some extent—

Environment committee  It's a voluntary system. The way the product regulations work is that you set limits on how many milligrams of mercury you can have in particular lamps and in other products. When an allowable limit of mercury is in a product, you, as a manufacturer or importer, have to put on th

Environment committee  Thank you very much, Madam Chair.

Environment committee  I would say that on sources of mercury to air from coal-fired electricity, regulations have been passed. The intent behind them was not about reducing mercury, but there's a strong co-benefit already being realized and continuing to be realized from the promulgation of those regu

Environment committee  I don't have ready facts for that, but we could certainly follow up.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. Whenever you sign on to a treaty in international law, before you can ratify the agreement, you must have all the implementing measures in place before you would be able to ratify it in Canadian law. Some other countries, perhaps, take a slightly dif

Environment committee  It deals with mercury, elemental mercury.

Environment committee  The treaty itself deals with elemental mercury. It was conceived in Minamata, Japan, because, of course, the formation of methylmercury is a key outcome of exposure to elemental mercury. Now I've forgotten the question.

Environment committee  That's right. We are in the final process of putting in place export control regulations for elemental mercury.

Environment committee  We do export a very small amount, and we just found that out. We had to do all of our research, and we were digging through statistics. There's a very small amount of mercury that is exported from the country.

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. The code of practice that was published in a draft back in April of this year, and which we hope to finalize this year, provides an overview of best practices to a certain level across a number of particular areas of environmentally sound management o

Environment committee  I don't have the exact numbers, but I would say, given the work I've done on the Minamata Convention on Mercury, that the vast majority of air pollution from mercury comes from foreign sources. About 95% of deposition comes from Asia, the U.S., and other countries, and it is depo

Environment committee  I'm not sure I have one top of mind. I'm thinking about lead batteries, but I honestly don't know enough to speak properly to it. I can't answer that question.