Managing waste material is indeed in provincial jurisdiction. All provinces do it. However, the federal government can and must set an example. Even though Quebec is often held up as an example, when you work in the field, you realize that our green paint can wear quite thin.
There are very good initiatives, such as banning organic matter from disposal sites in 2020, now scheduled for 2022. It was environmental groups like ours that demanded that the government ban organic matter.
I will talk in broader terms about producing ethanol. I have always talked about energy conversion. In Quebec, there is still no legislation about energy conversion, so it has not been regulated. They have been talking about doing so since 2011, but it has not yet been done. Some processes are admittedly interesting, such as gasification or pyrolysis, using certain materials under certain conditions. However, when we talk about energy conversion, about incineration in order to produce energy, we have considerable reservations because that destroys resources.
I always say that I would rather avoid problems than try and solve them.