Environment committee  I just wanted to offer a quick comment, which I hope is clarifying. When you talk about industry, that's not the situation we're facing. We have five salt producers in Canada. That's all. It's easy to enforce against them. That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about

Environment committee  Thank you. I would say that our remarks will have to be confined to our issue, which is road salts. In that, I think the appropriate response is a voluntary code of practice, as has been worked out. I don't think a regulation can be sufficiently flexible to reflect the operating

Environment committee  I think the reports that Environment Canada has received—as part of the code implementation, they receive annual reports—have shown actually just the opposite, both in Toronto and throughout Canada, but very strongly throughout Ontario, which has been wildly enthusiastic about co

Environment committee  Thank you for giving me the opportunity to respond on that. We believe that although there was peer review and a formal Gazette comment period, there were several deficiencies in public participation in the assessment process. We've testified to those before. We would say that t

Environment committee  I'm not sure that I understand—

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of the committee. It's an honour to be with you. I would remind you that we not only submitted extensive written testimony back in June, but we had two earlier opportunities to provide oral testimony. So we will confine our remarks today to e

Environment committee  All right. My two-hour statement in 10 minutes, by the look of it. In the case of road salts, the agencies understand that proper management not only conveys environmental benefits and can be done consistent with accomplishing the mission of keeping the roads safe, but it can al