Environment committee  Sure. The legislation does incorporate the precautionary principle right now, but it's just not implementing it. To me, the fundamental anti-precautionary aspect of this legislation is that the burden is on government to prove toxicity, rather than the burden being on industry to

Environment committee  Yes, as it is in the European Union, exactly, so to harmonize with that.

Environment committee  I think that the precautionary principle, in my view, and I've always said this, should be paired with what I've called a utility filter. I'll give you an example. I have a family member who twice has had her life saved by an experimental drug, twice was at the brink of death wit

Environment committee  This comes back to the whole question of mandatory duties on the Government of Canada within CEPA. Many of us, in terms of the expert submissions, have proposed specific mandatory duties. Right off the bat, when we talk about mercury air emissions, I'm reminded of this need for b

Environment committee  I favour strongly a hazard-based approach, as Europe has undertaken. Again, I'm going to draw on Joe Thornton to illustrate this problem. One of the biggest barriers in toxics regulation is scientific uncertainty. Part of the problem is just identifying hazards. Is this a substa

Environment committee  Thank you very much.

Environment committee  First of all, thank you very much for having me today. More important, thank you for the work that you're doing in this CEPA review. For those of us who aren't doctors, it's rare that you can say you're work can save lives, but this work you're doing could save thousands of live