Thank you, Mr. Chair.
That was the most efficient opening statement on this that we've heard here for a while.
Ms. Ryan, if I may, you talked a lot in your opening statement about what your department is doing to ensure proper waste management and about the regulations to control the export of any waste covered under the Basel Convention when exported to a Basel party, but as we know, the U.S. is not a member of the Basel Convention. They haven't ratified.
The purpose, then, of the regulation is obviously to control waste management. You stated, “In providing their consent”—and you said “their”, which I assume means the members of the Basel Convention—“the importing and/or transit countries confirm that these wastes will be managed in an environmentally sound manner.”
Being that the U.S.—and I'm sure other countries to which we export—do not have to follow the regulations, meaning that the waste can be managed or mismanaged however they see fit, I'd like to know from your perspective how much of Canada's plastic waste we have exported to the United States in, let's say, the last year.