Health committee  I think that was a pretty good summary. We all have aspects of Proposition 65 that we like and aspects that we don't like. The warning is actually not directly on the product where you can see it when you purchase the product. That's definitely of concern to the Canadian Cancer S

Health committee  It's definitely a much more complicated thing for chemicals. On tobacco, the research since 1969 has caught up, and now everybody does understand that it's very cancer-causing and extremely risky, but there is research out there to show that different things are cancer-causing an

Health committee  When I was younger and in school, home economics was still a class that you got to learn. They taught you how to do your laundry. They showed you different symbols of green, yellow, and red. Some things meant you were to hang-dry a garment, and so on. To this day I still remember

Health committee  It's fairly restricted. The products that have eco-labelling are available to government employees and offices of that type. They're not widely available to the average consumer. The program could expand, of course. But in respect of the types of labelling that we're recommending

Health committee  Sure. It's a bit of an interesting thing for me, because working for a non-governmental organization, where they put the label is really not hugely of concern to me. It's just that the consumers be warned. But as I mentioned, this particular bottle has a label for flammability, s

Health committee  The globally harmonized system we've apparently been pursuing for 10 to 15 years, which Europe is moving on, is a symbol. In that case, it's one symbol that depicts chronic health risk as a whole. It's an interesting symbol. It's a silhouette of a man with bubbles coming up throu

Health committee  I would, and I actually was allowed to bring this upstairs, so I'll use it as an example. This is a product I found in my own office at the Canadian Cancer Society. Our administrative staff had been using it to clean our whiteboards for a while. As I grew familiar with this fil

Health committee  Actually, I'm Claire Checkland, also with the Canadian Cancer Society, and we were hoping to split our time in two, if that's all right.

Health committee  I will start.

Health committee  Thank you very much. As I mentioned, I'm Claire Checkland. I'm with the Canadian Cancer Society's public issues office here in Ottawa. I work on environmental and occupational exposure to carcinogens. Thank you all so much for inviting us to present to this committee. We're ve