Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the witnesses for their presentations and for being here.
What we should hope for today is that this issue is put down as soon as possible on the agenda of an upcoming meeting of the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, where I believe it can be seriously examined. I understand that it involves all levels of government, federal, provincial and municipal.
Mr. Carignan, in your presentation, you mentioned seven causes that require a comprehensive action plan. Would ordering a ban on phosphorous in dishwashing products be an easy first step to take, a first step that is not conclusive, that would not enable us to solve all the problems, but a promising first step?
In addition, I would like you to tell us about the example of Switzerland, which has different ways of fighting phosphates.