Environment committee  Thank you, Rob. I don't think either the fines or the threat of regulation have been sufficient to drive even voluntary action.

Environment committee  I would echo what Mr. Wright has just said. I think the question was, are we relying too much on a voluntary versus regulatory approach? Maybe if we spent five years focused on regulatory we could compare a little bit, but as it stands, I think it's a tough comparison to make.

Environment committee  We will do that. Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you to the committee for having me, once again, testify. The Canadian public's interest in environmental stewardship pulls relatively high on voter priority lists, but it's rarely reflected by way of broad participation and CEPA consultation. Committ

Environment committee  I would agree also with the assessment. I don't think anyone is suggesting that the minister shouldn't consider the politics or the socio-economics at play, but rather that those politics not trump human health and the environment at every turn. In addition to the fact that whe

Environment committee  By those who would claim.... I forget the actual name. I would have to turn to it.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  I'm sorry, I cannot answer that question on the spot. I couldn't break down those 362 for you, where they're coming from.

Environment committee  An educated guess would be yes, but I would have to do a little bit of research to answer that question more accurately.

Environment committee  I would echo a lot of what Dr. Khatter has said. It makes sense not to focus on the trace elements, but we would want to exclude those elements that we know are highly toxic. At a minimum, we might want to look at upstream pollution prevention, at using different chemicals and pr

Environment committee  Well, I don't think that perception is entirely fair. We have one-tenth of the population, or even less, so on a net basis, no, that's not in fact true. I would actually point out that in the testimony I was referring to a report by PollutionWatch, and since some of them are on

Environment committee  I'm simply going to point out that encouraging and requiring substitution actually brings us upstream for pollution prevention instead of end-of-pipe controls.

Environment committee  I'm not sure I'm entirely following your question. If you define virtual elimination as a release, then yes, you're right, you can't go after the sediment because it's not targeted for virtual elimination.

Environment committee  I'm suggesting that you can't use CEPA in that instance.

Environment committee  You can clean the sediment. Certainly I'm not suggesting that we'd want to go and stir all that up, because there are a lot of problems with that.