Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Ms. Ryan, in your answer to Madam Pauzé you indicated that the government was following a multi-faceted approach to reduce plastic waste.
Your department imposes Bill C-204 and the alternative is to reduce plastic waste. Some of the ideas the government is imposing are to declare plastics a toxic substance under CEPA and to ban plastics for certain end uses. For example, a lot of plastic waste comes from food packaging. You'll recall in 2008, 22 people died from a listeriosis outbreak in Canada. There were also E. coli outbreaks. Recommendations coming from reports of those outbreaks included strengthening food safety measures, such as inner packaging, i.e., plastic.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency recently put into effect the safe food for Canadians regulations. Have the CFIA, Agriculture Canada and Health Canada been consulted on the plastics ban?