Environment committee  I'm stumbling because I'm not quite following your question, and that's twice you've tried, so I guess I'm failing.

Environment committee  I would pick up where Mr. Godfrey left off. For some of the legacy toxics, we can turn to international agreements and other statutes to thank for the reduction. I think that CEPA itself has been quite weak in dealing with some of those.

Environment committee  Good morning. I'd like to step back a little bit further. The roots of virtual elimination actually trace back to the 1979 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, in which the VE policy states that “The discharge of toxic substances in toxic amounts be prohibited and the discharge

Environment committee  I'd be hard-pressed to find them, honestly.

Environment committee  I anticipated the question earlier. I gave it some thought earlier and I wasn't able to come up with anything. Sorry.

Environment committee  In that specific case, I think it's more the implementation side than the text of the act relating to the problems in the Great Lakes. A lot of the problems in the Great Lakes relate to deposition and their indirect pollution channels.

Environment committee  I think it's only fair to start by responding that most of the plants in the U.S. are actually far more efficient than our plants. They have increased net pollution levels simply because there are that many more of them. They are hugely more efficient than most of our plants. The

Environment committee  I think commitments to the existing international agreements would suffice. I certainly wasn't trying to suggest that all sorts of mechanisms need to be built into CEPA in order to deal with the Great Lakes differently from the rest of the country. That wasn't my intent.

Environment committee  I want international commitments recognized within CEPA.

Environment committee  I'm thinking more of plants like Nanticoke, which have coal-fired power production.

Environment committee  To be fair, that's not necessarily CEPA's domain, but anything that could be done in CEPA to encourage a shift away from our dirty energy sources to cleaner sources--

Environment committee  Even natural gas is better than coal. I would much prefer to see--

Environment committee  I'm not going to support nuclear, no. That would be political suicide for me.

Environment committee  In dealing with the way American law evolves, it does not make sense to go and talk about Europe. Policy-makers in the U.S. are not interested in hearing what's happening in Europe, for the most part. So what some in the environmental community have done is extract pieces out of

Environment committee  I don't think funding levels in Environment Canada ever came back up to where they were before the late 1990s, whereas other departments enjoyed increases. That said, if the department's approach to CEPA is to continue avoiding regulation and to focus on ineffective programs, the