Environment committee  The latest one that was approved was approved in the middle of October on mercury from coal-fired electricity facilities. There were six substances originally targeted and about 14 Canada-wide standards developed. They're all beginning to report on how well they've been impleme

Environment committee  We have a policy that describes how we go from one step to the other. Generally speaking, it depends on the nature of the violation; if it's a serious violation, we go from one step to another very quickly.

Environment committee  Generally speaking, the two levels of government actually have quite different regulations. But CEPA does allow us to cooperate with identical regulations. CEPA allows us to let the federal regulation stand down and the provincial one apply. We can also have work-sharing arrangem

Environment committee  Off the top of my head, I can't recall what the maximum is. I'd have to come back to you on that.

Environment committee  No, but there are a lot more than one per year. Again I can't give you that; I'd have to get back to you.

Environment committee  What I was trying to draw your attention to was the number of inspections per year, which are up around 5,000, and then to how this tracks into some of the tools that I mentioned, such as 1,000 warning letters and 100 environmental protection compliance orders. What it's showing

Environment committee  I can't tell you off the top of my head, but I know it's been going up over the last few years.

Environment committee  I'd say we were in the mid-zone, but we can get you that precise information.

Environment committee  Not so far.

Environment committee  I don't have the numbers with me.

Environment committee  In the early days before regulation is passed, we begin what we call compliance promotion with industry. We do workshop training with them to explain what their obligations are, how they're going to have to measure or report whatever is relevant. There are extensive training work

Environment committee  We did give the numbers of investigations, inspections, and compliance actions in the summary documents. We can certainly give them for Quebec, and we can give, relative to that particular substance you're talking about, the regulations and the level of inspections in Quebec. In

Environment committee  I have no specific information with regard to these codes, but I can have the clerk forward it to you. Generally speaking, we do a follow-up on a code, such as the one we referred to earlier. There is a code for that. So we do a follow up to see if it is effective enough. There

Environment committee  There is whistle-blower protection, and we think it's fairly modern and powerful. If your question is how often do we get people whistle-blowing, making a complaint and informing us, it's not often. However, there are two things. As I said earlier, our observation is that the r

Environment committee  Yes, if I could comment to help clarify about the process and the tools, the department does have a guidance manual it follows every time it's making a decision to control risks of a substance or prevent risks. It does consider the full range of tools, from regulations to call it