Thank you to the witnesses for being here with us today.
I've met with the plastics industry once a year for, I would imagine, the last six or seven years. I remember that before the new environmental protection act came into place, they were very concerned about the measures for plastics. They said they didn't need this; they could set up a circular environment where plastics would be recycled and reused.
I'm looking at a paper, “Canada’s Zero Plastics Packaging Waste Report Card”, which came out last fall. It was submitted to Environmental Defence Canada. It's pretty depressing. Looking out to 2030—and I think Monsieur Blanchette-Joncas mentioned some of these numbers—if we keep doing what we're doing, even with the improvements you talked about, we will still be throwing out two million tonnes of plastics every year in Canada. About 88% of the plastics used in Canada will literally be thrown away.
You mentioned co-operation with the provinces. You mentioned extended producer responsibility and what the industry is doing. How is that going? Let's start with the industry. What role do you think the industry should be playing here? I think British Columbia has some EPR regulations and has a system in place. How are the rest of the provinces doing in that regard?