Thank you, Madam Chair.
I want to thank all the witnesses here today.
Your comments are very informative.
I just want to briefly describe my experience. I was once the mayor of La Pocatière, a town of 5,000 people, in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region of Quebec. When I was elected mayor 16 years ago, in 2005, the province of Quebec wanted to reduce putrescible waste. By 2020, 15 years later, the goal was for the entire province to have a brown bin program to collect putrescible waste. The objective was to improve our environment, given that Quebeckers' garbage bags are the heaviest in North America, if not the world. We may call ourselves environmentalists, but the fact remains that this policy still hasn't been fully implemented. Moreover, delays have occurred and continue to occur as we speak. This constitutes an example of a policy that was very forward-thinking at the time, but that unfortunately hasn't been implemented.
I'll turn to Mr. Breton.
Mr. Breton, you once worked for the Quebec government—