Environment committee  Depending on the nature of the risk management measure that's put in place, it could. Remember I had mentioned the kinds of things that we have the authority to look at under CEPA. You can look at imports, exports. Depending on the nature of the measure that's needed, it could

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. I'll come back to my answer. It's really by working together at all levels that we'll solve this problem. Last November, we established a pan-Canadian strategy. We are working with the provinces and territories to develop a waste reduction action pl

Environment committee  CEPA provides us with a wide variety of tools that can be used. I've covered the spectrum of what they could be used for. Depending on what the assessment concludes in terms of the nature of the action that's warranted, you can then target it in response to that. Since we've not

Environment committee  I'll turn that question over to my colleague Nancy.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question. The problems of plastic waste affect us all. I wouldn't say it's a jurisdictional problem, but rather that municipalities, provinces, territories, the federal government, countries, industry and consumers must contribute and each have a role to play.

Environment committee  In terms of accessing our CEPA authorities, it's important that we first conclude an assessment that identifies what the nature of the risk is. Based on that, we can take the appropriate action that's warranted to help manage those risks to the environment or to human health. As

Environment committee  By adding a substance to the toxic substances list it enables a wide range of regulatory actions under CEPA. As I mentioned, they do need to be targeted to help get at the issue that warrants action. They can include setting targets on the aspects of the substance through its lif

Environment committee  Thank you. Good afternoon. I'm pleased to be here with you again. My name is Helen Ryan, and I am the associate assistant deputy minister of the environmental protection branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada. I'm joined today by my colleagues Dany Drouin; Nancy Hamz

Environment committee  The strategy that has been developed by the provinces and territories clearly outlines the 10 areas where action is needed. Action must be taken in those 10 areas. As we were developing our action plan to that effect, we defined the five priority areas for action, which were est

Environment committee  That's like the million-dollar question, but when I talked about.... It's a system. The whole way in which we produce our products, and then how we dispose of the material and how it gets collected, managed and reused, is a system. To say that we want you to stop putting it out a

Environment committee  Yes, it is consistent. That's why we put in place a target to have 100% of it be recycled, reused or recovered by 2030.

Environment committee  Those are the kinds of issues we're actually working through with our provincial and territorial colleagues in the development of the action plan: what kind of element makes sense and at what stage. We're working through that, engaging stakeholders and others to help inform the d

Environment committee  In terms of the work with industry around consistency, there is work going on with respect to that. Also, there are discussions and the development of an action plan about how much further we need to go with regard to that, to figure out how we can get at consistent contents and

Environment committee  Yes. For instance, if you have a plastic that's multi-layered, it's much more difficult to recycle than you might find with one of your clear plastic bottles where the label isn't affixed to it. That can be much easier to recycle, and it would be easier to reuse the plastic. The

Environment committee  With respect to the role of regulations, as I mentioned at the outset, this area is a shared area with provinces and territories. Municipalities also play a role, as does the federal government. I would say, with respect to the actions that are going to be needed to help get us t