Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Mr. Medline, earlier this year, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change sought, and I will quote, “feedback on the development of a pollution prevention [or P2] planning notice for primary food plastic packaging” in respect of “Canada's large grocery retailers to prepare and implement pollution prevention plans...for primary food plastic packaging.”
Did your company participate in those consultations on the proposed plastic ban for fresh food? Can you give this committee an idea of what it will mean for consumers from the retail perspective? We've heard from industry that the plastic ban is going to cost an enormous amount and will also leave us with potential food security issues. Do you know what this will do to food costs or food availability?