Translation of "site policy " (English → French) :

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(Return tabled) Question No. 845 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With regard to children’s health and the environment: (a) what action has the government undertaken to integrate children’s environmental health into existing public health programs; (b) what specific action is the government undertaking to advocate for the consideration and assessment of hazardous environmental influences on children’s health and development, (i) in Canada, (ii) internationally; (c) what specific action is the government undertaking to raise the political profile of children’s environmental health, (i) locally, (ii) regionally, (iii) nationally; (d) in relation to its contaminated sites, (i) what ...[+++] specific action is the government undertaking to raise awareness about children’s environmental health, (ii) what are all contaminated sites where action has been taken to raise awareness, (iii) what was the risk; (iv) what was the action taken; (e) what are all government activities focused on children’s environmental health; (f) what are all existing government activities focused on prevention of environmental exposures aimed at protecting children's health; (g) what governmental action has been undertaken to prevent (i) pre-conception, prenatal, and childhood exposures, (ii) air, consumer products, food, soil/dust, water, and other physical environmental exposures, (iii) biological, chemical, and physical hazards; (h) how has the government taken children's vulnerabilities into account in developing environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards; (i) what targeted environmental and health policies, regulations, and standards have already been put in place to protect children's health, and what policies, regulations, and standards are currently under consideration; (j) what action is being undertaken by the government to measure the extent to which pregnant women and their babies are exposed to common environmental chemicals, and what health risks, if any, are associated with th ...

(Return tabled) Question No. 422 Ms. Kirsty Duncan: With respect to nutrition in child and adolescent populations in Canada: (a) does government policy include recognition and acceptance of the principle that Canada’s children and adolescents are entitled to nutritious food (i) regardless of where they live, (ii) regardless of their family income, (iii) particularly when economic forces undermine efforts by parents and caregivers to ensure healthy eating; (b) given that the 1992 World Declaration on Nutrition, to which Canada was a s ...[+++]ignatory, states that access to nutritionally adequate and safe food is a right of each individual, what specific actions have the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Health Canada undertaken for children and adolescents in order to fulfill this commitment; (c) what percentage of children and adolescents in Canada is food insecure, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (d) what percentage of children and adolescents lives below the poverty line, (i) do disparities exist, including, but not limited to, disability status, ethnicity, gender, geography, socio-economic status, (ii) if so, specify; (e) what percentage of children and adolescents has, as a result of living below the poverty line, (i) poor nutritional status, (ii) poor health outcomes due to their poor nutritional status; (f) what percentage of members of each of the following groups is food insecure, (i) child and adolescent newcomers, (ii) children and adolescents who live in poverty, (iii) children and adolescents who live in priority neighbourhoods, (iv) Aboriginal children and adolescents; (g) what percentage of children and adolescents (i) involuntarily misses meals, (ii) lacks healthy variety in its diet; (h) does the government have information, and, if so, what is that information, concerning (i) how (g)(i) and (g)(ii) impact the caloric a ...

The current members of the Task Force are: Andrée Delagrave, Chair; Mary Anne Stevens, Director; Louis Alberti, Legal Counsel; David Dunbar, Senior Legal Counsel; Shauneen Furlong, Senior Policy Officer; Marta Khan, Senior Policy Officer; Valerie Lasher, Senior Policy Officer; John McCarthy, Special Advisor; Eric Miller, Senior Policy Officer; Sherry Moran, Special Advisor; Bruce Walton, Senior Policy Officer, and Stephen Bindman, Special Advisor (part-time).Biographies are available on the Task Force web site at [http ...] ...[+++]

Progress on federal contaminated sites will continue to be ensured through existing government policies (code of environmental stewardship, greening of government, Treasury Board secretariat increased ministerial authority and accountability policy (1986), federal government guidelines (EC, TBS)) and through interdepartmental committees such as the contaminated sites management working group (c) Although the department supported the development of an inventory in 1990, the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment (CCME) member ...[+++]s were unable to reach an agreement and it was decided that individual members would be responsible for reporting on the number of sites within their jurisdiction.

Under the Regulation, in order for a site to be registered in the scheme, the company in question must in particular: - adopt an environmental policy meeting certain requirements and also including commitments aimed at the continual improvement of environmental performance, in order to reduce environmental impact to levels not exceeding those corresponding to economically viable application of the best available technology; - conduct an environmental review of the site and introduce, in the light of the results of that review, an env ...[+++]ironmental programme for the site and an environmental management system applicable to all activities at the site; - carry out, or cause to be carried out, environmental audits at the sites concerned in accordance with certain criteria and in compliance with certain requirements regarding accreditation of environmental verifiers; - set objectives at the highest appropriate management level, aimed at the continual improvement of environmental performance in the light of the findings of the audit, and appropriately revise the environmental programme to enable the set objectives to be achieved at the site; - prepare for the public an environmental statement specific to each site audited; - have the environmental policy, programme, management system, review or audit procedure and environmental statements examined to verify that they meet the relevant requirements of the Regulation and the environmental statements validated by the competent bodies; - forward the validated environmental statement to the competent body of the Member State where the site is located and disseminate it as appropriate to the public in that State after registration of the site in question.