Thank you, Madam Chair.
I appreciate everyone being here today and also your presentations. It's quite helpful that we've heard over the last couple of weeks a lot of very similar information from everybody, especially when we talk. We've learned a lot about bioplastics and where we go between virgin plastic and bioplastic and the steps we need to take.
I find it interesting that the great Paul Harvey once said that self-government does not work without self-discipline. In my previous life, I was the registrar for a profession, and I used to say to my professionals that without self-discipline and self-regulation we're doomed to be falling into the hands of government, and that's a big concern.
You're an industry that wants to regulate itself and should be able to self-sustain as well. We've heard oftentimes throughout these meetings from many people who are coming here and saying, “We want government money.” My question, I guess, to start off with you, Ms. Kumari, is this: What does the profession, the industry, need to do to self-sustain?