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  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  It's the alternative we have.

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

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 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