Manufacturers shall, before placing a toy on the market, carry out an analysis of the chemical, physical, mechanical, electrical, flammability, hygiene and radioactivity hazards that the toy may present and an assessment of the potential exposure to them.

[English] We cannot endorse a proposed law that blissfully assumes that a simple standard can be set within six months for lower ignition propensity cigarettes, without taking into account the lack of any agreed testing method for these cigarettes, the application of any of these changes to fire safety in real world scenarios, the serious and overwhelming health considerations to smokers of any forced product design changes, the setbacks these design changes could impose on efforts now under way to develop a potentially reduced exposure product, the possibility of smokers being less careful with the disposal of cigarettes, the prevalence ...[+++] of roll-your-own and fine-cut tobacco in many areas of Canada, particularly the Maritime provinces, the fact that the banded paper that is proposed as a solution could in fact dramatically increase the risk of fire, and the potential dramatic increase in contraband that could result from a hasty imposition of this technology, with its concomitant catastrophic effects on the Canadian industry, without fire safety having been improved a whit.

Decision VI/13 of the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol provides that the evaluation of alternatives to hydrochlorofluorocarbons should take into account such factors as ozone-depleting potential, energy efficiency, potential flammability, toxicity and global warming and the potential impacts on the effective use and phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons and halons.

We and the bill are talking about reduced ignition potential cigarettes.

At our 2000 annual conference our members passed a resolution that urged the Government of Canada to limit the propensity of cigarettes to stay lit when left unattended or discarded.

In addition to consolidating the legislation already in force, which essentially evaluates a preparation's physico-chemical properties such as flammability, and its potential effects on health, the proposal introduces a third category of properties; namely danger to the environment.