Quality and timeliness of the data are issues that we raise in the report. The registry is a good initiative too, and we talk about that in exhibit 3.5, but there are other sources. Statistics Canada's material tracking source, even though it takes over three years to get produced, does provide useful information. There's also a variety of sources of information from the provinces and municipalities, but I think having a registry brings it all together. Now that the federal government is taking more of a leadership role on plastics, whereas before it used to be mainly left to the provinces and municipalities, it makes sense that there should be some way of bringing all that data together so we have a full picture.
We note in our report, in the first exhibit, that it's quite interesting. The graph showing the plastic waste from 2012 to 2019—exhibit 3.1—is the best available data we have right now. Since we've published this, the next version of it has come out from Statistics Canada, and it didn't just add another data point to the graph; the whole graph moved because of the data quality issues and because we were understating the amount of waste in Canada. As I said, there are issues related to both the quality and timeliness of the data, and the registry is a good first step.