Industry has long argued in favour of a recycled content mandate. A recycled content mandate is the requirement that a certain percentage of the plastic come from nonvirgin resources. Doing so will create a market for that product. It will allow industry to make targeted investments based on the existence of the rule. They could go to their financers and say, “We now have a rule that says that we have to do this. Please give us the funding on favourable terms so that we can build the infrastructure that we need to do that.”
That is precisely how the Canadian renewable fuels network was created under Prime Minister Harper's government. There was an amendment to CEPA that very specifically spoke to the composition of the fuels. Investments happened as a direct result of those fuels. It was a legislative amendment with a subsequent regulatory requirement that allowed the renewable fuels industry to grow. We would tell you that the same growth would happen in the recycling industry.