Environment committee  That's a tough one. A lot of the federal-provincial dynamic has taken place with the CCME, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. That has not been particularly productive at giving us environmental gains. It has probably led to better provincial-federal cooperatio

Environment committee  I'm not sure you'll like my answer.

Environment committee  If you want to tackle climate change, smog--with its asthma--and the host of other pollutants, like mercury, we need cleaner power production, and CEPA doesn't deal with that explicitly. That doesn't really answer your question in a fair way, but in a practical way, if CEPA did

Environment committee  No, actually I'm speaking of almost everything else. Are you asking me if I'm speaking in favour of hydro?

Environment committee  As I understand it, your question is whether CEPA deals with those. The answer is it probably doesn't have to. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement explicitly deals with nitrates and other biological load issues. I'm just not equipped to answer that question more broadly in

Environment committee  More or less.

Environment committee  I believe that the criteria in the Act are sufficient to establish if a substance is toxic.

Environment committee  I might personally disagree with Kapil on this. The benefit of the criteria for defining toxic as currently exists in the act is that things we might not normally consider to be toxic, such as CO2 and other greenhouse gases, can get captured because their concentration levels do

Environment committee  Prior to CEPA in 1999, there was a strong lobby to ensure that data was consolidated, that emissions data was not made available on a per facility--

Environment committee  That's right, not company-specific, not plant-specific, that CEPA depend wholeheartedly on voluntary approaches to pollution prevention. What individual industry representatives might tell you over lunch at those meetings, however, is that regulation would have been a lot easier

Environment committee  I am sorry, I did not understand your comments about organic matter. I did not hear the translation.

Environment committee  I'll take that one on. The Great Lakes are different in that they are effectively a border; they require a cooperative stewardship, and in that spirit there are existing international agreements between the two countries. That's why I strategically tried to cast that issue as bei

Environment committee  My suspicion is yes, and I would certainly volunteer to try to come back.

Environment committee  I probably wouldn't differ from what Kapil has said. I think the road show is important, in terms of optics and the opportunity to reach out to various communities. I certainly wouldn't subjugate progress to the road show. Real change is needed and real attention from this commit

Environment committee  Hamilton Harbour would be a good place to start. There are lots of sites all around the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes basin has been North America's industrial home base for probably a couple of hundred years. It's waning now, but the legacy of pollution is all around the shores.