Therefore, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment, pursuant to section 47 and subsection 87(1) of the Canadian Environmental Protection Act , is pleased hereby to revoke the Lead-Free Gasoline Regulations, C.R.C., c. 408 and the Leaded Gasoline Regulations, C.R.C., c. 409 and to make the annexed Regulations respecting concentrations of lead and phosphorus in gasoline, in substitution therefor.

Therefore, His Excellency the Governor General in Council, pursuant to subsection 34(1)Footnote of the Canadian Environmental Protection ActFootnote , on the recommendation of the Minister of the Environment and the Minister of National Health and Welfare, and after the federal-provincial advisory committee has been provided an opportunity to render its advice under section 6 of that Act, is pleased hereby to revoke the Secondary Lead Smelter National Emission Standards Regulations, C.R.C., c. 412, and to make the annexed Regulations respecting the release into the ambient air of lead from secondary lead smelters, in substitution therefo ...[+++]r.

(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to its contaminated sites, (i) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about ch ...[+++]ildren’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

Council Directive 96/62/EC of 27 September 1996 on ambient air quality assessment and management , Council Directive 1999/30/EC of 22 April 1999 relating to limit values for sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and oxides of nitrogen, particulate matter and lead in ambient air , Directive 2000/69/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 November 2000 relating to limit values for benzene and carbon monoxide in ambient air , Directive 2002/3/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 February 2002 relating to ozone in ambient air and Council Decision 97/101/EC of 27 January 1997 establishing a reciprocal exchange of information and data from networks and individual stations measuring ambient air pollution within the Member States need t ...[+++]o be substantially revised in order to incorporate the latest health and scientific developments and the experience of the Member States.

Lead, to take another example, is mined at various locations under very different technical and environmental conditions and then transformed by a multitude of technologies into products as diverse as electric batteries, chemical substances and construction materials.

Since lead is now banned for hunting migratory birds, the same decision must be taken for lead used in sport fishing, with the same goal of better protecting migratory birds, including the loon (1115) The motion I am putting forward does not require any complicated action on the part of the government or of fishers, just a simple amendment to the Migratory Birds Regulations in order to replace the lead sinkers and lures used in sport fishing with similar non toxic products serving the same purpose.