I may have misspoken. The assessment reports I was speaking about are formal assessments that the departments jointly conducted on each of the substances added to the priority substances lists. There were 71 of those substances, and assessment reports have now been completed for all but four of those substances. Those reports are all publicly available. For four of those substances, there is still ongoing work for various reasons, but primarily because the available evidence is simply inconclusive; the departments are not able to come to a conclusion one way or the other.
I think that's a different issue than what you're speaking about, which is the public availability of information on the quality of the environment and presumably some indication of whether the public ought to be concerned about the state of the environment today or tomorrow.
I think there are a couple of points that should be made. One is that over the past few years there has been an increased emphasis within Environment Canada and Health Canada on providing information about air quality and on making that information useful and available on a regular, more localized basis to Canadians. For example, the smog alert that we all experienced on the weekend—which may have been the first province-wide smog alert, and certainly the first province-wide smog alert of this year—was based on procedures put in place by the two departments.
On the other hand, while we have been working on various indicators, we have not published a comprehensive state of the environment report for many years. That's an area that has received less emphasis over the past few years, based on the allocation of resources to other priorities.