Chemical Management Plan

As Steve Janke brings to us, Stephane Dion's week got worse when the government presented the new Chemical Management Plan. He quotes:

Rick Smith, who heads the Canadian advocacy group Environmental Defence, applauds the government's plan. He said the chemicals it targets are highly toxic and cause cancer, and are dangerous for the development of children.

"This announcement is long over due, frankly," he told CBC News. "It's a great step to bring us up to the level of the kind of programs we're already seeing around the world.

"This is a significant step forward for pollution reduction in Canada."

Smith said the United States and Europe have traditionally been better than Canada at controlling toxic pollutants.

Steve goes on to point out that Dion was the previous environment minister who did "nothing".

Yesterday I was listening to the radio (770 CHQR) and there was someone on from an environmental organization talking about this. And the previous government didn't do "nothing". Canada leads the world in categorizing toxic chemicals. So the previous government helped identify the chemicals - it just didn't do anything about them...

Sounds kind of the like the gun registry... identify then ignore.