Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to the witnesses for joining us today. Again, I apologize for the disruptions you've had to endure.
Today my question will be for Ms. Rougeot from Environmental Defence.
I would like to thank you for sharing your expertise based on Ms. Collins' question regarding PFAS. I also won't do the long version of PFAS any justice by trying to pronounce that. I do know that they're “forever chemicals” and they're found in many plastics and a variety of products we use every single day, which is a challenging thing to wrap your head around, given how potentially harmful they are.
The federal government is going to go to court and defend our decision to ban some single-use plastics. In this committee and in the House of Commons, we've seen Conservatives rejoice and do backflips over the fact that the court has questioned our ability to ban those. In fact, one Conservative member from Ontario called the ban an “evil trick” by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. We've had members in this committee also question the legitimacy of a plastics ban. I'd note that earlier there was an intervention from one such member who had never heard of PFAS. Therefore, before we go on to ridicule each other on the basis of—