Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
I'm going to continue along the same lines as my fellow member Darren Fisher.
My question is for the FCM representatives. Right now, Canada has no standards for recycling programs. Mr. L'Abbe even talked about the difficulty he had sourcing feedstock.
Since you're a Canadian association, couldn't you establish a standard for all your members? I think they all share the same objectives; they just work towards them in a different way. What's more, those objectives may not be as clearly defined in every region. The fact of the matter is that plastic is plastic, whether it's in the Yukon, Quebec or Ontario.
As I see it, you have the ability to encourage your members to adopt a standardized program, one that you, or experts you partnered with, could circumscribe. Leaving it up to your members to choose whether or not to adopt individual standards leads to chaos on the recycling front. Isn't this a golden opportunity for the FCM to take the lead on the issue?