Environment committee  I think we all agreed that was not going to be a relevant statistic, but I do believe there has been a diminution of salt. Do you have the numbers, Cynthia?

Environment committee  I think you can say that the amount of salt has gone down. I don't think you can conclude from that alone that there has been progress. As was said earlier, it depends on weather. Also, at a conference here in Ottawa last spring they talked about the effects of global warming and

Environment committee  My feeling is the salt industry is not the object of enforcement with regard to road salts. It's whether you want to fine the City of Toronto or the City of Montreal or the province of whatever, and whether or not there's the political will to impose that kind of fine on a sister

Environment committee  It's a different climate here than in Alberta.

Environment committee  There's no question. The other point is that it's not the salt that's delivered that causes any problem. It's the salt as applied in a particular place at a particular time, given certain local environmental conditions. The salt industry cannot control that unless it has somebod

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  We are, and that's why we've been trying to train them for 40 years. That's why in the early days of the CEPA assessment we worked very closely with TAC, the Transportation Association of Canada, to develop guidelines that were the running head start the department was able to wo