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PCN Policy Submissions

Supplementary PCN submission re. NOI2023-01 on pesticide regulation

Health Canada - Pest Management Regulatory Agency
September 8, 2023
Agriculture, Forestry, Pesticides

NOI2023-01 Consultation on strengthening the regulation of pest control products in Canada – Joint ENGO submission

Pest Management Regulatory Agency
September 8, 2023
An authoritative response to Health Canada proposals to increase permitted levels of pesticides, potentially improve access to confidential test data, and clarify that ECCC must receive data addressing harms to...
Agriculture, Pesticides

Accessibility in Canadian Parks

Accessibility Standards of Canada
August 11, 2023
Proposed accessibility standards should go beyond mobility, to address harms from environmental exposures including pesticides, fragrance chemicals and "wireless" radiation
Accessibility, Fragrances, Pesticides, Telecommunications & Radiation

Canada’s Biodiversity Strategy – a Focus on Pollution Prevention and Accountability

Environment and Climate Change Canada
July 17, 2023
Canada's Convention on Biological Diversity commitments require ambitious pollution reduction. Ambitious measures and accountability for pesticides risk reduction, are needed. As well, radiation used for telecommunications should be prevented by...

Toward a Sustainable Agriculture Strategy

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
March 31, 2023
Sustainable farming is essential to maintain food supplies and to sequester carbon in the soil, in the face of climate change. Farmers need support to implement tools of organic regenerative...
Agriculture, Sustainable Agriculture

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

Followup of Bill S-5 NGO testimony to ENVI

Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development
November 28, 2022
Protecting human and environmental health requires recognizing characteristics of hazardous chemicals and mechanisms of toxicity. The list prescribed in CEPA, is decades old. We discusses how increases in chronic diseases...
Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA), Chemical Assessment

Tiafenacil Notice of Objection

Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA)
October 28, 2022
Agriculture, Herbicides, Pesticides

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