Environment committee  Is the question whether we should have postal code level NPRI releases?

Environment committee  I think what we have learned is that we definitely need alternatives assessment, because we can't have regrettable substitution. “Regrettable substitution” is kind of the name of the game with respect to taking out bisphenol A and replacing it with what we think is more toxic, bi

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  Oh, that's a really interesting question, because Canada is a signatory to the Minamata Convention, as you know, which is tasked with controlling releases of mercury. It's very timely that you mention this. Canada has been involved in reducing mercury emissions through the Intern

Environment committee  The public role is to advance consideration of the chemical mixtures that we all experience, and that the environment experiences. CEPA takes the chemical-by-chemical approach to adjudicate according to set criteria. What CEPA isn't able to do and doesn't get a handle on is the t

Environment committee  Avail ourselves.

Environment committee  I would get people together to discuss how to move that assessment forward. I don't have the best answers now, but I know that a lot of people are working on it. In the U.S., the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine came out with a large report on alternative

Environment committee  Nothing; we haven't done anything about the gym.

Environment committee  No, I haven't even been made aware of it.

Environment committee  No.

Environment committee  Yes, it was about alternatives assessment. I think alternatives assessment is definitely important in getting bad actors out. I note that under part 5 of CEPA, for example, a bunch of flame retardants are bundled together to allow assessors to figure out which alternatives are be

Environment committee  The whole scope of alternatives assessment needs to be cast very broadly. We want to know whether we need that function at all before we just replace one thing with another. That was my caution with respect to alternatives assessment. Cast it broadly.

Environment committee  Who should do that? Okay. We need to open that conversation, and it can opened within CEPA because I believe that we have to move CEPA beyond a chemical-by-chemical approach, to consider if the chemical-by-chemical approach is working in totality. Because the total number of chem

Environment committee  Yes, I agree that there should be a mandatory assessment. It's not even just new data; it's also new interpretations of old data as we understand, for example, more subtle adverse health effects. Who had previously thought that neurobehavioural effects and cognitive deficits co

Environment committee  No.