Finance committee  The three components of the system apply to that chemical. So it's chemicals sold to a workplace for use in what happens to be a fracking operation. The product is labelled, there's a safety data sheet that's provided in relation to that product with detailed information on it, a

Finance committee  What isn't included in the current system is making the information part of a registry or broadly making that information public.

Finance committee  WHMIS doesn't address that aspect. In many cases, these are large quantity industrial chemicals that may have a wide variety of uses. We are looking at the intrinsic hazards of those chemicals, but not the hazards in relation to the specific uses.

Finance committee  Disclosure does exist as part of the system. All of the hazardous components of these products are disclosed on safety data sheets. Those are already provided. The end use of the chemical isn't taken into consideration in relation to the hazards. We are talking about the intrins

Finance committee  The safety data sheet that's required under the Hazardous Products Act does disclose the list of chemicals that are hazardous. Any of the hazardous classes that are covered by WHMIS, and any chemical that falls within those hazard classes, is already disclosed. That's part of the

Finance committee  In relation to Ms. McDonald's comments about having a hazard-based system, we're talking about the intrinsic properties of these chemicals and their disclosure. When we're talking about chemicals that are designed for a specific use, it sounds like the types of risks that you a

Finance committee  My colleague Mr. Morales has additional information to add, but essentially, the amendment being proposed is redundant to the existing sections of the bill as proposed. Currently, proposed section 14 says that if you're going to import a product, it needs to be compliant with th

Finance committee  In the exact same way that all other exemptions are currently dealt with, and will be dealt with in the proposed regulations.

Finance committee  That's our understanding. Based on our conversations with industry, that's their concern. Currently, there's an existing provision in regulations that allows someone to bring a product in that's not properly labelled, on the condition that it be properly labelled once it arrives

Finance committee  Essentially, there are conditions in place that currently require a company that's importing a product to identify an inspector in the jurisdiction in which it's being imported to ensure that the product is actually controlled safely until it's been relabelled. Now I understand