Environment committee  You're raising a concern that we've heard from other Canadians. We do have regulations that prohibit toxic substances from being in products. We plan to be doing some product testing to make sure that a sample of products we test do comply with the regulations, but obviously we c

Environment committee  I think I'd want to check with the folks who are responsible for those regulations and get back to you with an answer to that.

Environment committee  I'm sorry; I don't have that information. We could provide that to you, but I don't work in that branch.

Environment committee  I can start. Then I think my colleague David will want to jump in. When we do a risk assessment, we assess whether the substance has negative impacts on human health and the environment. They are from a multitude of sources. They can be end-of-pipe industrial releases or diffuse

Environment committee  Under the wastewater effluent system regulations, municipal governments do have to do environmental effects monitoring, and they provide that data to the department. To my knowledge we don't make it public, but we do collect information to make sure that they're meeting the requi

Environment committee  I can start talking about performance measurement. In the 2011 audit, I recall that the previous audit on toxics indicated or proposed that we didn't do a good job measuring the effectiveness or what impact our compliance promotion and enforcement activities had. We took that

Environment committee  I can speak with regard to toxic substances. We assess our results in a number of ways. We have very clear targets for the program. We know that by 2020 we need to have assessed 4,300 priority substances. We report, through a CMP progress report, every six months on how we're do

Environment committee  Okay. No problem.

Environment committee  Hello. My name is Gwen Goodier. I am the Executive Director of the Chemicals Management Division at Environment and Climate Change Canada. I have with me Heather McCready, who is a director general with our enforcement branch in the same department, as well as my colleague Davi