Translation of "Délai d'allumage " (French → English) :

Within 5 minutes of ignition and for the remaining duration of the test the temperature of at least one thermocouple shall indicate at least 590 °C.

Operation of the light-signal control shall be followed within not more than one second by the appearance of the light and within not more than one and one-half seconds by its first extinction.

[English] We cannot endorse a proposed law that blissfully assumes that a simple standard can be set within six months for lower ignition propensity cigarettes, without taking into account the lack of any agreed testing method for these cigarettes, the application of any of these changes to fire safety in real world scenarios, the serious and overwhelming health considerations to smokers of any forced product design changes, the setbacks these design changes could impose on efforts now under way to develop a potentially reduced exposure product, the possibility of smokers being less careful with the disposal of cigarettes, the prevalence ...[+++] of roll-your-own and fine-cut tobacco in many areas of Canada, particularly the Maritime provinces, the fact that the banded paper that is proposed as a solution could in fact dramatically increase the risk of fire, and the potential dramatic increase in contraband that could result from a hasty imposition of this technology, with its concomitant catastrophic effects on the Canadian industry, without fire safety having been improved a whit.

We cannot endorse a proposed law which blithely assumes that a simple standard can be set—within six months—for lower ignition propensity cigarettes, without taking into account the following :

It shall be designed such that, if no flame is obtained at start-up or if the flame goes out during operation, the ignition and switching times for the supply of fuel are not exceeded by four minutes in the case of liquid fuel heaters or in the case of gaseous fuel heaters, one minute if the flame supervision device is thermoelectric or 10 seconds if it is automatic.

Operation of the light-signal control shall be followed within not more than one second by the appearance of the light and within not more than one and one-half seconds by its first extinction.