Environment committee  I knew somebody would come up with one. Yes, instead of using CEPA to deal with the content of baby bottles, the presence of BPA was banned using the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act rather than CEPA. Another example that my colleague has just given me is that of a portable f

Environment committee  I should know that. Sorry, we can give you the complete list of toxic substances. It's a few hundred.

Environment committee  Yes, fair enough. I do not know the precise number. We'll get you the precise number. There are 132 substances currently listed on the list of toxic substances. If I might mention one caveat in that some of those substances are broad groups of substances and some are individual c

Environment committee  Yes, action has been taken on each of those substances. The addition of a substance to the list of toxic substances means there is a risk, and the use or creation of the substance will pose a risk to health and the environment. In some cases, ministers and governments have deci

Environment committee  I don't think we can answer questions about why the government has not.... You'd have to ask the minister that.

Environment committee  That's a great question. I have an answer here.

Environment committee  It doesn't under CEPA. The report that the government has developed over the last number of years, which provides state-of-the-environment information, is promulgated under the Federal Sustainable Development Act. That provides information about environmental quality.

Environment committee  I can follow up with specifics. The ballpark number is about two-thirds. Some of the recommendations were for changes to the law. Obviously, we haven't implemented any of those. Some of them, such as to engage stakeholders earlier, we've done.

Environment committee  We can absolutely provide that to you.

Environment committee  I'm not sure that inspections have gone down.

Environment committee  I don't know. I'll again commit to follow up and give you information.

Environment committee  I'll make a couple of points, if I might. The act does provide broad discretion to take action and to decide how to act. Consideration of how the act has been implemented and whether the use of the act has been effective is, of course, a completely appropriate focus for the commi

Environment committee  The two departments under CEPA have regulated a couple of categories of sources of air pollution. One is vehicles, fuels and engines, major sources of air pollutants that in and of themselves are harmful to human health and the environment. Also, many of them are precursors to sm

Environment committee  At this point my advice would be that this request should be made of the minister. The minister may authorize officials to provide advice to the committee. The request for this meeting occurred fairly recently, so the discussion with both our ministers has simply been one of let'

Environment committee  Yes, I think that's fair. The previous government introduced what was known as the environmental enforcement act in 2009. That introduced increased fines. It introduced, for the first time in the world, the obligation to look at both use and non-use values of the environments th