Health committee  Thank you very much. That's a great question. The whole principle behind the chemical management plan and CEPA and the evaluation that's actively going on and has been going on for a number of years already is to look at both acute risk and, where we have scientific information,

Health committee  There is a definition for toxic in the Canadian Environmental Protection Act. It really has two principles to it. First of all, is it toxic to our environment? Secondly, and what's really germane to our discussion today, is it toxic to human health?

Health committee  Let me give you an example. Road salt has been identified as and deemed to be CEPA toxic. As a result, it has been designated to be put on schedule 1. One of the things you look at is the condition under which road salt can be used. Under CEPA, there is an environmental compone

Health committee  I think we've already done that. That's part of the requirement out of CEPA.

Health committee  And that's the purpose of the new substance notification process that we have in Canada. The new substance notification process is actually a pre-market approval process. The substances that are evaluated through that are either allowed onto the market because they are safe, or a

Health committee  Yes, and that is a provision under the CEPA 99. It's actually something that Environment Canada has started to have discussions about with industry.

Health committee  I think it's already allowed for.

Health committee  Thank you very much. I have just two comments. First of all, from discussions we've had with officials within both Health Canada and Environment Canada, as I alluded to earlier, I know that mandatory labeling is an option that's already available to regulators if they believe t

Health committee  The other thing that might be worth keeping in mind is that there are some other initiatives that might also help in providing some tools to help us work through this, particularly on the import side. Canada Border Services Agency is working on the single-window initiative, which

Health committee  Yes. Thank you very much for the question. First I'd like to spend a bit of time reminding the members--and I'm sure others have done this--of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999, and the chemicals management plan, which Canada currently is leading the world in imp

Health committee  I don't believe it should be part of Bill C-6 because I think there are other regulatory avenues by which we're already achieving that effect.