Well, I wish I could give a sensible answer to that question, sir. I would love to see better coordination of waste management procedures in the different provinces coming from a federal coordinating body. I would love to see a general change in the philosophy in our country, a move towards a philosophical acceptance that the three Rs and recycling are the mode of the future. I would imagine, and I think I believe strongly, that a federal body and a federal parliamentary committee such as this could strongly influence that philosophy and the change of mindset that we need.
I think that it's very fundamentally a change of mindset; I think people need to be encouraged to understand that it may be a little bit of extra work to put your plastic cans into a recycling bag instead of dumping them into the garbage. It's not a great effort and it's not a great cost, but it's a matter of encouraging people to get into the habit. This is how the communities that have done so—for example, Halifax, Nova Scotia—have accustomed the citizens to understand this and to believe that it's something in everyone's interest and for the community's benefit.
I'm not an expert on the political side of things, but my sense tells me that what could come from the federal arena would be a thrust in supporting this philosophically, and then a systematic attempt to educate and to change attitudes.