Environment committee  Mr. Chairman, I do have five minutes and then unfortunately I have a flight. The CEPA process is very good in principle. I think the fundamental guts of the documents, in my opinion, are sound. The problem comes with its implementation. It's heavily based on risk assessment and

Environment committee  The agreement is being reviewed right now, and an approach to specific objectives in this annex is being discussed. A lot of interest is focused, instead of on creating a list with numbers that will be out of date as science advances, on trying to build upon, for example, a proce

Environment committee  Just as a small correction, I'm now a professor at McMaster University. I've just moved away from the IJC. But I can talk to you about the IJC and the list of chemicals. The Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909 stated that no activity on one side of the border will cause injury to he

Environment committee  Thank you. To keep the dialogue open and balanced, I want to draw attention to statements such as that there's no evidence that PBDEs at current levels are a risk. That's a true statement, but we also know that PBDEs are increasing in the environment and in animal tissues on a l

Environment committee  I'd like to make one point, if I can.

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Chairman and committee members, for the opportunity to speak to you today. I would like to begin my remarks with some of the impartial findings of the International Joint Commission, the IJC. Many of you know the IJC was created under the Boundary Waters Treaty a