Environment committee  I think that is encompassed in all the recommendations that have been presented to you by Dr. Scott, Dr. Boyd, Ecojustice, CELA—

Environment committee  They absolutely do. That's the point of these. I would just add, emotion can also be on your side. On this question about harmony between the provinces, selling it to the provinces, to the electorate, there's a little bit of public education that needs to happen within governme

Environment committee  I concur. I really favour the U.S. Clean Air Act approach that has binding consequences. Basically, if states fail to attain the national ambient air quality standard, they lose certain federal funding. The reason I favour it is we have data that it worked. We've actually seen re

Environment committee  I think it's an important piece too. I would just say, look to international experience. We're actually only one of 12 countries in the entire world that doesn't codify environmental rights. In fact, the sky has not fallen. The thing about Canada, of course, is that we pay for

Environment committee  Yes, you're absolutely right. There are going to be areas where people continue to compromise their health. But this is an area in which you as government can give people health. That's a pretty incredible opportunity, in my view. The thing is, you're right. There are always goi

Environment committee  I love this question so much.

Environment committee  I was speaking recently to a health law group and what I said is the health law people and the environmental law people need to talk, because in every other form of health promotion you actually require individual co-operation. You tell people to stop smoking, but then they have

Environment committee  Sure. No, CEPA doesn't appropriately manage the risk. For many different criteria, as Dr. Dayna Scott put it, we have the least protective standards in the industrialized world. For example, our regulations for persistence and bioaccumulation are the least protective in the worl

Environment committee  It does spur innovation. It does feed the economy. We know that.

Environment committee  Okay, pricing. This has been well established in Massachusetts, which has actually done the data gathering on what happened with their toxics reduction. They found it saved business millions of dollars and saved the environment many tonnes of toxic substances. I think the subst

Environment committee  Yes, great idea. I think that the requirement to protect vulnerable populations should go into subsection 2(1) so that it becomes a mandatory duty on the government, and specifically, some of the submissions have suggested that the susceptibility of vulnerable populations should

Environment committee  Professor Doelle, do you want to elaborate?

Environment committee  I would say that embodying environmental justice within CEPA is probably the best way to protect the federal government. As you may know, there's already an ongoing section 15 claim. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the claim.

Environment committee  Yes, it underlines the—

Environment committee  No. I fully anticipate it will get to the Supreme Court of Canada. I typically take a conservative approach to new legal claims. I've often turned down cases that look.... I can point to five or six different examples within CEPA that I would take on right now as cases. They're