Environment committee  That's a tough question to answer. With respect to the complexity of this issue, if I were to try to think what might be helpful in the context of the time that you have to help advance the collective agenda and where you would best place your efforts, my sense would be around th

Environment committee  I'll go back to my earlier comment, with respect to the value of plastics in the Canadian economy. I'm not certain that reducing plastics is actually the solution we're looking for. I think what we're looking for is keeping the value of the plastics in our economy, and not in the

Environment committee  I think when we look at the issue of plastics, not all plastics present a problem in the environment. Keeping them out of the environment is the challenge for us, as opposed to keeping them out of our economy. Plastic resin, the production of plastic resin in Canada, is a complex

Environment committee  With respect to the specific measures, we've been working through the government operations and our procurement strategy. In September 2018, the Treasury Board Secretariat announced the Government of Canada's action on plastic waste in our federal operations. In there, we're look

Environment committee  Okay. I would like to highlight that in our international efforts there has been considerable momentum to reduce marine litter and plastic waste. We championed, as I mentioned, the ocean plastics charter during our G7 presidency. There are some specific targets that we've highli

Environment committee  I will.

Environment committee  Good afternoon. My name is Helen Ryan, and I'm the Associate Assistant Deputy Minister of the Environmental Protection Branch at Environment and Climate Change Canada. I am joined today by my colleagues Nancy Hamzawi, Assistant Deputy Minister of the Science and Technology Branc

Natural Resources committee  That's a good question.

Natural Resources committee  Okay. As part of the pan-Canadian framework, there is a commitment to working collaboratively with provinces in the development of a zero-emission vehicle strategy. That work has been ongoing and analysis has been done about the importance of moving forward on four elements. The

Natural Resources committee  As I was saying, it is a joint working group with all of those players. The purpose of the—

Natural Resources committee  The purpose of the working group was to come together and do shared analysis—

Natural Resources committee  The working group was to come together to do joint analysis and look at the competitiveness considerations. From that, industry has put forward specific recommendations to government around what it thinks the nature of the issue is and what the findings are. That's how the result

Natural Resources committee  I can speak more specifically. There was a joint working group that was put in place with Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Finance Canada, some of the oil and gas industry and the provinces of Alberta, B.C and Saskatchewan. The purpose of that was

Natural Resources committee  I would just echo the point about the further reductions that can happen in the transportation sector. As I mentioned, the way in which we regulate in that space is to look at model years for the vehicles you purchase, making them more and more efficient. We don't regulate the ef

Natural Resources committee  Thank you. I'm also pleased to be here today to speak about the role of energy efficiency in Canada and its contribution to Canada's Paris climate change commitments. As you've heard already from my colleague, Matt Jones, the pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate c