Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Minister, last month I was in Vancouver with a few of my colleagues, and we were at the Canadian Produce Marketing Association's AGM. They had a massive trade floor set up so that we could see fresh fruit and vegetable growers from right across Canada and even from the United States and Mexico. We got to see a great showcasing of the innovation and the technologies that the sector is driving at. That sector is one we need to celebrate.
Of course, one of the big topics there was ECCC's plastics policy. What I heard in some of the conversations in some of the breakout rooms was that the industry acknowledges that it needs to step up to the plate. There is an acknowledgement that plastics are harmful to our environment, but I think they want to do it in a way that does not impact food security and food safety, because there aren't many viable alternatives.
One of the big questions they have at this moment in time, and I'm sure they would be willing to hear your answer right now, is how you are engaging with ECCC on the development of that policy to ensure that their very real concerns are being met while trying to get to packaging that's not as harmful as plastics.