We have had a number of interesting conversations about the registry.
As you know, as the organization that manages extended producer responsibility, we receive a tremendous amount of information from our producers regarding the packaging they want to market. We suggested to the federal government that we could forward that information to the registry, but the registry and the information we receive are not in the same categories, unfortunately. So we will not be able to share with the federal government what is happening provincially. I think that is problematic for producers because they have to send two different reports about two different categories and provide various different types of information.
As to what is needed, I think it would be helpful to have more information about plastics. On the other hand, since the registry is so exhaustive and requires so much information that producers do not have right now, there is a significant risk that the information could be seen as being at too high a level. The registry is based on many hypotheses, namely that a lot of things will be counted twice since what is required is unfortunately extremely exhaustive. The registry's objective is interesting because we need more information about plastics. Some adjustments are needed, however, in the way that information is gathered. That being said, the registry will be in effect next year. It will be interesting to see how things unfold.