Environment committee  I'm sorry to hear that, Melissa. I think this problem of cumulative effects is extremely important for us to consider, and it is something that's illustrated in the concept of vulnerable populations, because what we see is these combinations of effects and combinations of exposu

Environment committee  Sure. I think this is an area where we're illustrating the importance of updating our laws and regulations. This is an area where the science has evolved quite dramatically as our shifts in manufacturing and products have changed. There is an emerging body of science that lin

Environment committee  Thanks, Melissa. Hello again, Mr. McLean. I was here on Bill C-226. I think my colleague with the David Suzuki Foundation, Lisa Gue, spoke to this to some degree in the first panel. We believe that these pieces of legislation would be complementary. Part of it is in the imple

Environment committee  Thank you, Ms. Pauzé. I do think these factors are included in the way that this bill is laid out. It does not exclude, as Ms. May said earlier.

Environment committee  It's a recognition that race and socio-economic status are part of this.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question, Ms. Collins. It's an important one. Perhaps I could talk a little bit about the point of view that we're trying to operationalize at CAPE. We're trying to really see these issues through a planetary health lens. A planetary health lens is akin to wha

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you so much for the question. This will give me an opportunity to speak a bit about what the organization I work for, which as I said earlier is the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, is doing. CAPE is a physician-led organization with the mission of b

Environment committee  I'll reinforce what Ms. May just said, but I would also like to provide another example. One of the projects that we've been working on as a collaboration of organizations has to do with this intersection of racism and exposure to toxins. One of the things that we know—and this i

Environment committee  Thank you, Ms. Collins. Thank you, Ms. May. I'd like to point back to something Dr. Waldron said when she was speaking in the debate on Bill C-230. One thing she said around that problem, at that time, was that she felt we needed to do more education about what racism is and w

Environment committee  I don't have statistics at hand, but I can say that what Mr. McLean is saying about the problem of marginalization of other forms is not wrong. However, we do know and we have evidence—from a tremendous number of mapping projects, including the ENRICH Project, for example—in Cana

Environment committee  Mr. McLean, perhaps I could offer what the ENRICH Project offers as its definition for “environmental racism”. The ENRICH Project was spearheaded by Dr. Ingrid Waldron. Their definition reads: ...refers to racial discrimination in the disproportionate location and greater expos

Environment committee  Thank you, Ms. May. Good afternoon, everyone. I want to thank everyone on the standing committee for inviting me to appear as a witness today. Of course, I want to thank Dr. Waldron for all her work and for allowing me to speak when she was unable to today. As Ms. May said, my