Environment committee  Yes, we certainly agree with the idea of “polluter pays”. That's one of the fundamental concepts of modern pollution legislation. With respect to areas of concern around the Great Lakes, some of these are legacy areas. I believe there are 17 or so identified areas of concern on

Environment committee  Yes--and Blackberrys, I regret to say.

Environment committee  Can I very quickly correct something said earlier? The 93% statistic that I quoted was actually carcinogens. For known carcinogens, trying to compare apples and apples on each side of the Great Lakes, our assessment is that the Canadian facilities pollute 93% more. It is actually

Environment committee  Very quickly, there's very little, if any, human health data on the mixtures of chemicals we're talking about. For instance, we tested for 68 chemicals in our study, and we found 46 on average in everybody. We don't know the human health effects of that mixture of very different

Environment committee  Thank you. I have just a couple of quick points. First of all, the federal government has not been doing the proper measurements. Let me use two examples--trends and biomonitoring. We've already talked about biomonitoring. As far as I know, my organization, Environmental Defenc

Environment committee  I've been sort of a harbinger of doom and gloom in the last couple of weeks with this polluted-children report, so I just want to point out one good piece of news in the report, which bears directly on your question. Two of the substances we tested for in children were PCBs and

Environment committee  I'll give a brief answer, to start. Whether it's for kids in school or for governments, at a certain point you have to stop producing report cards and start improving the grade. I do think it's fair to say that the federal government has been mired in process on the issue of

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Thank you for the invitation to be here, Monsieur le président. As Dr. Khatter just mentioned, we released a report last week, and I hope you have a copy in front of you, called Polluted Children, Toxic Nation. In a nutshell, we tested five Canadian famili