Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  That is in the NPRI. Where the NPRI falls short—and we had a certain disagreement way back before it was brought in—is that other aspects that are significant in terms of the environmental and safety aspect of the tailings pond are not captured in the NPRI.

Environment committee  We do not represent and have never represented asbestos producers.

Environment committee  We'd definitely be very encouraged to have better data search tools incorporated. Probably the secretariat would be in a position to answer where they are now and what they would need to go further. We're more concerned that at the reporting stage we're repeatedly seeing order

Environment committee  I would like the government not to have clunky old systems, and there's an aspect of public registries that is very valuable to researchers and the country as a whole, so I don't want to argue for “let's just privatize it”. It's very important that it be in government. I believ

Environment committee  I don't think, at least at this point, that we would propose changing the definition of “toxic” or “substance”. Someone else may have ideas for how to improve it. It is difficult. You can go to a pure hazard-based one, but that has problems . You can emphasize risk more. Yes, t

Environment committee  Yes.... There—

Environment committee  There is a review just being completed, or it has been. The consultative parts have been completed. We're waiting with bated breath to hear where Environment and Climate Change Canada landed. The current MMER is underpinned by environmental effects monitoring, so the impact on a

Environment committee  But that's under the Fisheries Act.

Environment committee  Are you referring to schedule 2 of the MMER?

Environment committee  That's a complicated question. I would not be able to fit it into one little period. There are reasons for that provision being in the regulations, if only because in very many parts of Canada where mining occurs, there is a lot of water, so to place your mine and material safel

Environment committee  Workplace hazardous materials information and labelling are not under CEPA.

Environment committee  It's under a separate law, and the terminology is very different. They attempt to convey information on safe use and handling and alert people to the type kind of danger. Some things you don't want to breathe, some things you don't want to put on fire, and some things you don't w

Environment committee  Does it?