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closures, government agencies
extended some reporting periods
to help ensure facilities would be
able to make their submissions.
This includes the NPRI/TRA, ONT
Greenhouse Gas Reporting as
examples. However, member
facilities should always ensure
compliance with their jurisdictions
as a result of any change that
was/is announced in this regard.
CASF is continuing to advocate
for our sector with Environment
and Climate Change Canada to be
able to opt-in to the Output-Based
Pricing System program and we
are following up with Ontario’s
Ministry of Environment, Conser-
vation and Parks on the status of
BY BOB SMITH our Technical Standard application. As we navigate through
each of these discussions with our government partners
Although this has been covered beautifully in this mag- we will be reaching out to our members for their valued
azine’s last edition, it would be remiss of us here at CASF inputs. In addition to policy work being done within
not to recognize and say farewell to an old friend – Pete Canada, we also continue to work with our U.S. partners
Wilkinson. He was a credit to this magazine and an icon in to monitor activities that would affect the chrome plating
our respective industries, always there with a smile and a industry in Canada such as PFAS in fume suppressants and
joke and with his camera by his side and he was loved Proposition 65.
and will be missed by all unconditionally. We know where Your Canadian Association for Surface Finishing feels
you are now, Pete, and we look forward to spending time your pain! Like you, we and our members are continuing
when the time comes. to push through this global pandemic in mostly good health
For industry, CASF is here for you. Our members across according to the numbers and although the easing of our
Canada and beyond, value our advocacy on their behalf at various governments into Phase 3 seems to be happening
all government levels including our relationship with the too slowly for some, we only have to look south of the
Ministry of Environment. That advocacy can be seen as we border to see what happens when we relax too quickly.
recognize regulatory changes, understand their potential This, the second column from CASF, is being written
impact on your business, and support you in managing during the deepest recession since either the Great
change as a result of that emerging legislation. We are also Depression of the early 1930s or the Second World War,
closely involved with authorities in advising and compiling depending on whose statistics you subscribe to. But no
Technical Standards that directly affect our industry. If this matter who is right, we remain in unprecedented times.
and other support and programs are something you think In the ’30s and ’40s there was no Internet, Twitter or
your company can benefit from, please give us a call and cell phones, and the world’s population was less than
join us at www.casf.ca. one-third what it is today, (2.3 billion). People lived
Given that a lot of workplaces were affected by COVID- and were happy to live in their own communities and
19 and have reductions in staffing or even temporary knew very little of what happened in the next province let

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