How much new money is going to be required to fund the legislative proposal and implement the associated Action Plan?
The 2008 Federal Budget provided $113 million over two years to fund the Action Plan. • Charities that use second-hand retail stores for fundraising say their use of anonymous donations will prevent them with complying with the mandatory record-keeping of the proposed CCPSA. Is Health Canada doing anything to address this? The goal of the record keeping requirement is to enable Health Canada to track products through the supply chain in order to ensure fast and effective corrective action, for example to carry out recalls of unsafe products. Furthermore, Health Canada recognizes that in the case of anonymous donations to charities, record-keeping for every donation of limited items would not be practical or feasible and would not support the intent of the requirement. However, there are circumstances where record-keeping by second-hand stores may be appropriate in order to protect the health and safety of Canadians, such as in situations where large volume donations are made. Health Ca
