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  That is Transport Canada's bailiwick, but it's not....

Transport committee  It's not mine, but the safety elements of shipping are within Transport Canada's elements.

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 looked at the types of traffic and the volumes of various products that are shipped into northern B.C. both for community resupply and industry resupply, and on that basis set the threshold. As my colleague mentioned, there's a very detailed study published on our website that

Transport committee  Yes, we are.

Transport committee  No. All products that are persistent in that range, petroleum products, are included in the definition.

Transport committee  None at this time. The point is that if such products emerge, we will assess them and do the scientific analysis with our colleagues to determine the best course forward.