Environment committee  You're absolutely right, communicating to the public is extremely challenging. I think it is a specialty within science. The same way that you have specialties in medicine or in chemistry, there's a specialty in science communication. It's not easy to make things apparent to the

Environment committee  The message is that it's going to take a lot of effort to communicate to the public what the act really means and what the level of risk is. I'd be very happy to give further comments and advice on how that can be done, practically, but I can't do it in one minute.

Environment committee  Thank you. I'll direct your attention to the screen, please. Don't look at me; look there. I direct McGill University's Office for Science and Society. Our mandate is to inform the public on scientific matters and to demystify these for them, because we like to think that the mo