Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our second hearing on plastic pollution.
I apologize to all our witnesses who have been on standby. We had a surprise vote, and that always sends our schedule a bit sideways.
We have four groups today who are going to be participating in this panel. We have until about five o'clock. We are expecting there may be another vote this afternoon, so we're going to try to hear all the testimony and have some discussion before five o'clock.
I think we said to each of the groups that they have 10 minutes for their opening statements. In order to actually have some of the discussion, I'd ask if there is a way to tighten that up, because we can always take your written materials, and where a lot of the value comes in is through the questions and answers between the members and the panellists.
We tend to start with the people appearing by video conference because the connections can sometimes be a bit finicky, so I'm going to turn it over right away to the Canadian Plastics Industry Association.
I will set the clock for 10 minutes, but as I say, if your presentation can be shorter than that, it would be fantastic.
I use a card system. When there's one minute left in your time I'll give the yellow card, and when the time is up, I'll give the red card. That means don't stop mid-sentence but just wrap up your thought, and then we'll move on to the next person.
With that as our introduction and welcome, if the representatives from the Canadian Plastics Industry Association would like to start, the floor is yours.