Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd just like to follow up on the comments by Mr. Schiefke and my colleague Mr. Baker. Throughout the conversation today with the officials we had here, there seemed to be a tremendous amount of uncertainty when it came to terminology regarding waste and plastic waste. There doesn't seem to be anything in the bill.
We're talking a lot about what we would export out, but we're not even discussing what potentially could be imported.
In addition to that, I do have significant concerns regarding an absolute ban on export, in that we are almost logjamming the internal waste management here in Canada and creating an even bigger disposal problem here, when we're actually trying to resolve it. A chain of events would be sparked by this. The officials are saying that we have mechanisms and solid agreements in place in the current structures we have, which may make Bill C-204 redundant.
We're not sure about that yet. I'd like to share my concerns regarding that uncertainty. We do need more time with this, but a very limited timeline is being proposed. We're not dragging this out.
My colleague Mr. Schiefke and the chair didn't disagree that there is a possibility of doing this in a shorter time. We have all clearly committed time over our constituent weeks to be here to do this important work, and I just don't feel we are there yet.