Health committee  I could tell you there's a precedent in place in the advisory council on the transportation of dangerous goods. Corinne mentioned the paper reduction. The members of that are the industrial chemicals businesses. It's incredible how they reduced it and how these members are so m

Health committee  I'm an old-timer in this town. I go back many years. Director General of the Product Safety Branch of Health Canada was very high-profile in the public service in this town. I was told by officials at Health Canada that from 1992 until a surge of bad product came in from China in

Health committee  I don't disagree with that, but I really think that Canadians—

Health committee  It's the alternative we have.

Health committee  I'm aware that the staff of the Consumer Products Safety Agency, and even the commissioner, was dead against this independent third-party testing agency in the United States. I think one of the recent presidents.... It's a source of controversy, to the point where the Consumer Pr

Health committee  No, I don't. This is interesting, though.

Health committee  Thank you. The question is on the severity of the risk. Technically it becomes a judgment call, and those calls will have to be made, absolutely no question about it. I'm very sensitive about creating standards. We're talking about the majority of Canadians who are really emplo

Health committee  Thank you.

Health committee  Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm accompanied by Ethel Archard, who also retired from the Canada Safety Council. So you can tell what the council does with their old employees: they keep them busy. Anyway, thank you again for having us. Globalization and new technologies have led t

Justice committee  Thank you very much. You were very fair-handed. You did a great job.

Justice committee  I'll raise as an issue that your real chronic offender listens to the radio and television and reads the newspaper. It's known that they are not going to go out when they know there are RIDE programs, or CounterAttack, or whatever it is. They know.

Justice committee  I think if you look at the Criminal Code of Canada...I'm pretty sure it goes back to the year 1890, and if you look at the thing that deals with bank robberies, it goes on and on and on, and impaired driving falls under this. I think most Canadians would not really know what the

Justice committee  I think the Traffic Injury Research Foundation of Canada has done work on this. They are the most valid body for this type of work. They are Ottawa-based.

Justice committee  Yes, or Robert could get it for you.

Justice committee  No comment.