Finance committee  We will be looking at making the information public. As I indicated earlier, there will be a consultation on any major decision we make. If we're doing a special review, we would be consulting on the decision and making sure that people had an opportunity to comment on those deci

Finance committee  The companies are not charged individual fees for the special reviews or re-evaluations. There is an annual regulatory charge that applies to cover these types of costs. However, whenever a special review is initiated, the companies that register their product are contacted and i

Finance committee  It will provide some relief, although it will not have a significant effect on the backlog. The backlog situation for re-evaluations is more significant than could be seen in the savings from this particular change.

Finance committee  No, it should not have any negative impact. As I indicated earlier, we're still going to have to be looking at foreign decisions. We're still going to have to make sure that we've considered all new information if concerns arise. Therefore, it should have no negative impact on he

Finance committee  Currently, a special review is triggered any time an OECD country removes all uses. Normally, if for any other reason we do a special review, there is a requirement that we have concerns that the health or environmental risks of a product were no longer acceptable. This would a

Finance committee  Yes. The minister would have discretion to decide whether there was other information on which to base his or her decision. Currently, we have to look at a foreign decision. We have to look at the basis of that foreign decision. That wouldn't change. We would still need to do t

Finance committee  Mr. Chair, clauses 217 to 219 propose changes to improve efficiency and remove some duplication in the Pest Control Products Act. Just as a background, pesticides in Canada are regulated by Health Canada to protect health and the environment. Products undergo a pre-market scient

International Trade committee  I'll just get the right wording. In the definition that was proposed, the words “belongs to” were included. The other words in the language refer to labels that would accompany or be in physical proximity to the product. Adding the words “belongs to” gave us the flexibility to r

International Trade committee  In the definition that was provided in the bill, the words “belongs to” were placed there to facilitate that electronic label. It's wording that is used in the Food and Drugs Act, for example, in their definition of “label”, and by including that wording in the definition, it all

International Trade committee  In the definition in the act...?

International Trade committee  No. In the act we looked at “belongs to” as being sufficient to give us the authority to do that. We would then go into the regulations, for example. We have other label definitions that could be included there. The specifics around an electronic label could be included in the re

International Trade committee  We would have to go back and review that second portion, consistent with the rest of the definition that was proposed.

International Trade committee  “Prescribed” is in this definition as well. The same conditions would apply. By only using the term “prescribed” to limit the definition, then it would not include, for example, the conditions that would be applied on a label by the minister under section 8 of the act. Both defin

International Trade committee  Thank you. The inclusion of the word “prescribed” would limit the authorities we would have around labelling to those elements that are in the regulations, so we would be limited more than we are currently. Currently, there is authority under section 8 of the act for the ministe

International Trade committee  Since the bill was introduced, we have had a number of conversations with stakeholders about this, about their concerns. Part of it is trying to reconcile the fact that, yes, the definition of “label” may be larger than it was before but the elements are coming out of “package”.