Thank you very much, Mr. Chair, and thanks to all of our witnesses.
Mr. Lee and Mr. Gilvesy, I'll start with you.
On the plastics issue, I am very sympathetic to what your industry is going through, but I want to offer a bit of a counterpoint to Ms. Rood's intervention.
Number one, we have seen in news reports recently that the plastics industry has blatantly lied about the economic viability of recycling their products. That comes from the fact that plastics are found in thousands of different forms, with different chemical compositions. They can't be mixed together, which adds to the struggle of recycling.
I also need to bring the perspective of a coastal community. We get a lot of our food from the ocean. In the ocean, of course, we have a problem with microplastics and bioaccumulation in the fish we eat. This will, of course, make its way into humans.
This is the conundrum we find ourselves in as policy-makers. We obviously want to recognize the struggles of your industry, but we also want to confront the fact that the plastics industry has lied to policy-makers. There's the problem of bioaccumulation in our oceans.
In terms of recommendations, do you have any ideas on how the federal government could tackle the plastics industry to make it easier for that recycling to happen, so your industry and consumers are not confronting this problem and we put ownership back where it should belong? Do you have any suggestions in that regard?