Transport committee  It depends on the situation. We have marine inspectors, and marine inspection enforcement in many instances would be Transport Canada as well.

Transport committee  In terms of it carrying some of these products perhaps, yes, it would.

Transport committee  I would be able to answer that question as a follow-up.

Transport committee  I don't know right now.

Transport committee  Yes. We have seen preliminary proposals for that, as have our NRCan partners in the science part of the NRCan analysis.

Transport committee  There are no conclusions thus far. It is still very preliminary in terms of getting a full sense of what this product is and how it would behave in various situations in salt water.

Transport committee  The oceans protection plan has a lot of components of working with indigenous groups to develop and help work through the various marine safety enhancements. There are also opportunities for actual participation in various elements. We're working through that with communities. Th

Transport committee  We work very closely with our colleagues. We also relied very heavily, importantly, on international standards under the various international elements. Also, under the oceans protection plan, there are investments into ongoing research in this area.

Transport committee  In terms of evidence, it was an analysis of the types of products looking at internationally based definitions and science-based definitions on which ones are the heaviest and most persistent—all the current knowledge scientifically. Those are the ones that are listed on the sche

Transport committee  I'm not able to answer that question directly myself.

Transport committee  We do actually have some NRCan folks here.

Transport committee  We will work with our colleagues.

Transport committee  Sure. We will follow up with that.

Transport committee  The minister did speak about this. This exclusion is consistent with similar, very constrained emergency exclusion capacities that are provided to ministers in other safety legislation. It is to be used in one-off, unique circumstances like perhaps a natural disaster, or even oth

Transport committee  There was a range of input that we received across the different consultations and engagement sessions. Certainly, I would say that everybody is interested in enhanced marine safety and enhanced environmental protections, and in making sure that economic opportunities are also co