Accomplishments to date and next steps

As part of its transformation work, the Pest Management Regulatory Agency (PMRA) has:

• surveyed federal, provincial and territorial governments on existing pesticide water monitoring programs in Canada, in the year 2021
• since the Spring of 2022, we have spearheaded and continue to hold dozens of technical working groups related to transparency, real-world data, and modernized business processes with participants from academia, federal, provincial and territorial governments, growers, non-government organizations, and pesticide manufacturers (meeting schedule available at Stakeholder Meetings and Engagement Activities)
• completed broad public consultations for the targeted review of the Pest Control Products Act (PCPA)
• prepared a What We Heard Report on the PCPA targeted review consultations, that has been shared publicly
• launched the Scientific Advisory Committee for pest control products
• launched water sampling and monitoring to inform pesticide decisions and the development of a national framework

PMRA is also:

• streamlining the way that lower priority pesticides are reviewed
• developing a plan for more plain language communication of PMRA’s regulatory process and decisions

Our next steps are to:

• continue engaging stakeholders and partners on the implementation of transformation initiatives