It s one of the proposed amendments the Liberals have put forward to the act in Bill C-28, tabled in the House of Commons Tuesday.
The 1999 law outlines how the federal government regulates toxic chemicals as well as other polluting materials, with the goal to protect the environment and people from their harmful effects.
It s through CEPA that commercial substances are assessed based on their risk and determined whether or not to be toxic.
Scientists and environmentalists have been calling on the Liberals to make what they say have been badly-needed modernizations to the law, such as requiring substance assessments to include the cumulative effects of repeated exposures.
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THE United States state department has named the Zimbabwean government among some world administrations that were notorious for abusing their citizens.
In his Annual Country Reports of Human Rights Practices 2020, US State secretary Antony J. Blinken, in the House of Commons Tuesday, named Zimbabwe together with China, Russian, Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua as some of the countries abusing citizens’ rights.
Blinken said the Covid-19 pandemic impacted not only individuals’ health, but their abilities to safely enjoy their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
He said some governments used the crisis as a pretext to restrict the enjoyment of rights and to consolidate authoritarian rule.
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