Of course, if they are manufacturing in a Canadian context, they are probably employing people. I imagine there is a job benefit and a social benefit to doing that.
The reality is that we don't manufacture many plastic anything in Canada. The increasing single-use plastics in the Canadian market do very little for the Canadian economy. Of the 400 billion tonnes of plastics produced globally, we're at less than 6% in terms of what we manufacture here. We have much more opportunity to grow our green economy by improving our ability to innovate around collection and recycling and by designing, with our innovation, more recycled content of plastics in products and packaging.
I think we learned very clearly in the pandemic, when we saw single-use plastic use triple, that having long supply chains can make us quite vulnerable. There is an opportunity for us to look domestically and shorten our supply chains in terms of production. Also, rather than going through all the expense and effort of our citizens collecting and then shipping this raw material to other parts around the world, only to buy products that actually have these recyclables as part of the makeup, we'd be better off trying to find ways of creating and shortening the supply chain and creating an economy of plastics right here.