We're talking about this global economy. On this side, we want results, especially in terms of the plastics that are making it into our environment. As an indigenous person, I've been battling this for 20 years in my local community.
On the Stockholm Convention, which many countries have signed on to, including Canada, it seems that a lot of countries are not holding up their end of the bargain. In Southeast Asia, for example, the cumulative impact is 550 million tonnes of plastics making it into our environment—our marine environment, to boot—as opposed to Canada's average eight-million-tonne contribution to marine pollution. Canada is trying to do better, but it seems Canada and some other countries are alone in that respect, and we're actually allowing plastic products to be made elsewhere for Canadian use. We're not really enforcing the Stockholm convention on anybody.
Is this fair to Canadians? Is it fair to Canadian businesses? Is there something Canada could be doing internationally to put more pressure on these other signatories to this convention to do better?