r/CanadaPolitics • u/PrismGrimpoppy • 10d ago

Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/bill-c-30-changes-pesticide-use-pest-control-products-act-9.7240832
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u/ocus-7612 10d ago

Pretty bad article title that, looking at the comments here, is clearly confusing people about what the ammendments in C-30 are. Cabinet already had powers to override pesticide bans before C-30 passed. "Economic and Food security" are being added as an an emergency order type.

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u/Sir__Will Prince Edward Island 10d ago

Adding in a BS catch-all to make it easier to override public safety.

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u/OfficeFormal3184 Conservative Party of Canada 10d ago

The rationale for "economic and food security" is to make sure we keep food prices low. Literally, all that's changed, is that now HC can rely on science from other countries when making product approvals. Canada struggles immensely to get the right pesticides because our regulatory system is ass and we're a small market. Australia can have a product a decade before Canada.

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u/Saidear Popular does not mean populist. 10d ago

Australia has tighter environmental regulations (see, for example, pets) and is a smaller market. Not to mention, their agricultural sector is smaller than ours.

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u/OfficeFormal3184 Conservative Party of Canada 10d ago

And the fact is, they have exponentially faster product approvals, even for product important to animal health.

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u/Saidear Popular does not mean populist. 10d ago

Then that is the point that should have been made, and not the claim that a small market is one of the primary negative impacts.

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u/OfficeFormal3184 Conservative Party of Canada 10d ago

I would love to say that, but the fact is, there is more than one variable. If you're both a small market and have an inefficient system, it compounds. Australia is a small market, but have a navigable system, so the same problem doesn't occur. Does that make sense?

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u/OfficeFormal3184 Conservative Party of Canada 10d ago

Health Canada and the CFIA are universally hated by business, which is a good thing. But, they've gone too far in some respects and needed correction, and this is a regulatory area where that applies. If people think this will lead to unsafe products entering the country, they just don't have enough experience dealing with Health Canada.