Not that I'm aware of.
That's part of the problem, because there is no way of funding the collection and disposal of flares as you have suggested doing through having a deposit or whatever.
There's also the cost to the marinas and the chandleries. They have to have bunkers to store these flares while they're waiting to ship them off to one of the manufacturers for disposal. There's a cost there as well. It's very difficult to get people to even think about that, let alone really do something about it.
We introduced this program in 2014—by “we”, I mean Canadian Power and Sail Squadrons, CanBoat—because there was a growing need to be able to dispose of these flares. We got funding for that program over eight years from the boating safety contribution program, but that funding stopped last year. Even though we applied, we were not accepted.
My understanding is that this year we reapplied for next year and the two years following, and that the program had been put on hold—