Health committee  Exactly.

Health committee  Our budget was $3.5 million.

Health committee  It is both. We are partially cost-recovery. We have fees that industry must pay in order to file a claim for exemption, and those fees cover the costs of the claim validity side of our decision-making process.

Health committee  Always.

Health committee  No, actually, there aren't any lists of products that would be excluded, other than that the product must be a controlled product as defined by the Hazardous Products Act and the controlled products regulations. There are products excluded from that sphere of responsibility, such

Health committee  Any company that wants to do business in Canada must conform to the Canadian legislation and regulations.

Health committee  Absolutely. Thank you for the question. The application for a claim for exemption is predicated on the fact that they must not only state why they want the claim for exemption, but justify why they want it. That's where we talk about whether or not it is really a trade secret. T

Health committee  You're quite right, they still have to provide the reason, but they don't have to provide the justification behind it. So they have to say, “Yes, it's a trade secret, this is the value of the trade secret and, yes, I have measures in place to protect the confidentiality”. Behind

Health committee  Absolutely. The interesting thing about WHMIS and our role in it is that only the identity of the chemical that can be protected. All of the other information on that trade-secret ingredient and the product must be fully disclosed. So even when there is a trade secret claim made

Health committee  Three amendments have been proposed to modernize and streamline the operations of the Commission. Within the economic review framework that we spoke of earlier, the first amendment will allow claimants to declare, with a minimum of supporting documentation, that the information