A little earlier a question was put to Mr. Jean concerning additional recovery powers in the context of deposit-refund systems.

15. Stresses the need to introduce the concept of producer or importer responsibility for the recovery and safe disposal of all pesticide packaging, pesticides past their expiry date and revoked pesticide products by way of a mandatory deposit-refund system;

15. Stresses the need to introduce the concept of producer or importer responsibility for the recovery and safe disposal of all pesticide packaging, pesticides past their expiry date and revoked pesticide products by way of a mandatory deposit-refund system;

Consumers are also victims of this system because, so far, around four hundred million euros of paid deposits have not been refunded to the consumer.

7. Takes the view that the introduction of taxation on capital movements would represent a first step to be built on by means of further measures to combat movements of purely speculative capital, such as exchange controls, the abolition of capital flows to or from tax havens, the requirement to lodge a non-refundable deposit with the central bank of a given country in connection with loans granted by foreign banks to local firms and banks in that country and a complete revamping of the rules governing the international financial system;

Accordingly, Environment Canada has committed itself to implement a process that will fulfil the principles of: public participation, openness and transparency in the decision-making process; exploring options beyond traditional command and control regulations such as: market-based tools (trading programs, taxes and charges, financial incentives, environmental liability and deposit/refund systems); voluntary actions (guidelines and multistakeholder protocols); information provision (environmental labelling, technology development and transfer, government reports/inventories, citizenship); and regulations/guidelines/environmental qual ...[+++]ity objectives; and cost effectiveness, flexibility, and harmonizing environmental management regimes among federal and provincial governments.