Environment committee  My understanding is there is a list of prohibited substances, which is quite different from virtual elimination. So where it is a product that is prohibited from entering into commerce, it is a different list from the virtual elimination list. But I was trying to say that a lot

Environment committee  I do not work in the government, so I wouldn't want to prejudge as to why that decision was made. The act has a mandatory requirement for a state of the environment report, but one has not appeared since the act was passed. I'm assuming that it was because of a reallocation of re

Environment committee  But if you introduce legislative change there is the potential of then going back and having to review guidelines and processes and arrive at an interpretation and so on. That's what we saw in other acts and amendments where there's a legislative change and then there is this sto

Environment committee  Once you decide how you move forward on your review, you should hear from a lot of other industries that have interests in different parts of the act--for example, all the recycling industries. We're engaged in recycling. Our feed material is impacted by CEPA because of transboun

Environment committee  Our industry is primarily regulated and controlled by provinces. We lie within the provincial jurisdiction. CEPA is a new addition, and the impact has been growing. It's very difficult to say at this stage how much of the perceived excess burden has been due to implementation or

Environment committee  It's very difficult to compare legislative structures. Most countries are unitary countries that don't have the federal-provincial differentiation. You can only really compare partially with the U.S., but mostly with Australia, which is the closest country. Most of our competitor

Environment committee  As I mentioned, in terms of actually changing the act or looking purely at where to change the act, we're really hesitant, because we think the implementation part is where there seem to be problems. As far as I know, this committee is not confined to only considering legislative

Environment committee  I wouldn't say it's necessary to our ability to invest so much as it is to have a well-functioning, long-term act and legislative structure. When there is no state of the environment reporting, the interpretation of trends and the interpretation of where we're going basically bec

Environment committee  In practice, it's usually fairly evident, and usually defined by provinces. It's part of operating permits or particular regulations where there's a definition of upstream, downstream, and sampling points. Most of the impingement and ambient monitoring is defined in the operating

Environment committee  Section 64 covers substances with very different types of issues. Some are of concern to human health in even very small amounts. Some are of concern if released in very large volumes, or if not managed properly, or can be damaging to the environment in a broad sense, but not to

Environment committee  I'll give you an example. One of our members has a program with the community, the province, and a local health authority that involves a children's blood lead monitoring program for the surrounding communities. It's one of the few areas in the country where there is very good da

Environment committee  Thank you. To start with, I won't go over who we are. It is included in our written brief, and you can read that later. I'll discuss just the key points. First, CEPA does affect our industry. It affects every aspect of our industry. That starts with the source material that we