Hello, everyone.
First of all, thank you for inviting me today. I'm honoured to be here. Actually, I'm thrilled to be able to talk about plastics. I'm a borough mayor, but I'm completely fascinated by the whole Canadian plastics industry.
I represent the greater Montreal area at National Zero Waste Council, where I co-chaired the plastics advisory panel with Andrew Marr, who is part of Metro Vancouver.
We created about 12 recommendations for different plastic wastes across Canada, which we identified as the most problematic ones. We created this document because we need to work better together. The federal, provincial and municipal governments need to collaborate. We need to create new federal, provincial and municipal legislation and bylaws that will allow us to implement these needed solutions.
This is why I'm so thrilled that you can hear me today, because we definitely need the federal government involved in order to solve these issues.