I think this committee is headed in some good directions on limiting the types of plastics and the plastic components rather than the products. I think that's a good way to go—looking at toxicity, recyclability and other criteria.
When it comes to the federal role, standardization is absolutely the way to go, but I don't think the building code is the right analogy, because the model national building code is also not enforceable—it's nothing the provinces need to go by—so you need to do something that has teeth.
The fight we're having on carbon right now is about whether it's constitutional, so this order of government needs to establish, first, that it has the constitutional means to regulate plastics. The way they should do that is through CEPA and through toxicity to the environment and human health. That pathway has already survived with microbeads.