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PCN Policy Submissions

Submission regarding 2026 Budget Implementation Bills C-30 and C-31 amendments to federal pesticide regulation, and re-naming the Pest Management Regulatory Agency

Finance Committee, Parliament of Canada
June 2, 2026
Proposed amendments to the Pest Control Products Act should be struck from Bills C-30 and C-31.
Agriculture, Food, Pesticides, Risk Assessment

Regarding: Preliminary Proposal for a Deep Geological Repository (DGR) for Canada’s Used Nuclear Fuel

Canadian Nuclear Regulatory Agency
February 4, 2026
Nuclear Waste, Risk Assessment

Letter to Minister of Health re: Industry interference in pesticide assessment

Hon. Mark Holland, P.C., M.P.
November 22, 2024
A science-based notice of objection should trigger urgent second-thought on pesticide registrations. Instead the PMRA consulted industry then dismissed Prof Christy Morrissey's findings of excessive insecticide contamination in water—habitat for...
Agriculture, Biodiversity, Exposure Assessment, industry interference, Neonicotinoids, Pesticides, Risk Assessment

Joint Statement: Reorienting federal regulation of pesticides … A health and environmental imperative

Ministers of Health, and Environment and Climate Change; Pest Management Regulatory Agency
February 8, 2024
Biodiversity, Pesticides, Risk Assessment, Sustainable Agriculture

Implementation Framework for the Right to a Healthy Environment under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999

Government of Canada
April 22, 2024
Bill S-5 amended CEPA to include the "RIght to a Healthy Environment." This consultation addressed implementation of this new "right."
Biodiversity, Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Exposure Assessment, Hazard Assessment, Petrochemicals, Plastic, Radiofrequency Radiation, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation

Amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act for 2022 and Beyond

Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, Parliament of Canada
November 4, 2022
The Right to a Healthy Environment will only be realised if CEPA is amended to enable the best choices to be made regarding substances and technologies. Permitting everything that slips...
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation

Letter to PMRA re. suspension of glyphosate product renewals

Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Health Canada
October 27, 2022
Agriculture, Exposure Assessment, Glyphosate, Hazard Assessment, Herbicides, Risk Assessment

Comments on proposed glyphosate maximum residue limits (PMRL 2021-10)

Pest Management Regulatory Agency, Health Canada
April 13, 2022
Agriculture, Exposure Assessment, Food, Glyphosate, Herbicides, Risk Assessment

Radiofrequency Electromagnetic Radiation investigation belongs in CEPA

The Senate of Canada, Standing Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
June 27, 2022
Federal civil servants stated that other legislation meant that environmental data collection and research on environmental protection against radiofrequency radiation is unnecessary. Our investigation confirms that there is NO environmental...
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Hazard Assessment, Radiofrequency Radiation, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation

Amending the Canadian Environmental Protection Act (Bill S-5) for 2022 and Beyond

Standing Senate Committee on Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources
April 29, 2022
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment, Endocrine Disruptors, Exposure Assessment, Hazard Assessment, Plastic, Radiofrequency Radiation, Risk Assessment, Telecommunications & Radiation