Environment committee  I apologize. I was just trying to follow the implications. In a previous session, the committee approved G-14.1, I believe, which required ministers to publish, as soon as possible, a notice stating the name of anybody granted a waiver. The waiver process is intended to complem

Environment committee  I apologize to the committee. I did not anticipate this. We'd appreciate coming back to that, rather than prolonging this discussion while everybody stares at us.

Environment committee  I apologize. I don't think I'm able to comment.

Environment committee  Amendment 14.1 actually amends CEPA, so it adds an obligation to the existing statutory requirements. It's not just what we currently have in the statute. This adds a new obligation to consult interested persons with respect to these decisions.

Environment committee  This afternoon, this committee passed government amendment 14.2, which adds an obligation on the ministers of health and environment in new section 108.1, subsection (1), to “consult any interested persons” with respect to the assessment of information in respect of vertebrate an

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  In amendment G-14.2 as amended, there's a new requirement to consult any interested parties with respect to a prescribed living organism or group of living organisms. This is the corollary amendment, which would give the government the authority to prescribe what those living o

Environment committee  No. I'm sorry, but the provisions that are struck here are not the subject of amendment G-14.2. I think they would have been the subject of authorities that were proposed but defeated just a few minutes ago, so now this amendment is limited to only the new provision that was pass

Environment committee  A few minutes ago, the committee discussed and defeated proposed amendments with respect to meaningful public participation. That term has now not been introduced into the bill, so we do not need regulatory authority with respect to that term. What was passed earlier in the ses

Environment committee  That's correct, Mr. Chair.

Environment committee  There are just a couple of clarifications. The committee made the decision.

Environment committee  Could I make one other interjection, just to clarify the term? If we go back to G-14.2, it introduced the obligation on the ministers to consult “any interested persons”. That's standard language that we've used that already exists in CEPA. It covers any person who is intereste

Environment committee  Yes, exactly. This is an obligation on government: “The Minister shall, to the extent practicable, use....” This is not an obligation on industry. This is not an obligation on university labs, except to the extent that they are working directly for ministers or the department in

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, we're also joined by Mr. Carreau.

Environment committee  Mr. Carreau is from Health Canada.