Environment committee  EPR is fully implemented, and it's being followed. The problem is that it lacks teeth to take it down to exactly what you're asking about. That's what we're saying; they're going through the plastics review right now. Don't take a plastics review, separate it, put in an EPR for

Environment committee  They keep closing the doors because nobody wants it any longer.

Environment committee  Maybe in the world....

Environment committee  There is a body that functions today called the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, which is a very significant organization, in my mind.

Environment committee  They're clearly responsible for strategy with regard to all things to do with the environment. They are working right now on a zero plastic waste action plan. It seems to me that if you've given them—the federal government, or whoever...and they've agreed to collaborate and have

Environment committee  Could I just add something really quickly? I know you're at the end of your time. When I came in to run PAC in 2006-07, there were 175 packaging converters. Packaging converters are those who take raw materials and convert them into a box, a glass or a can. They manufacture pack

Environment committee  I can tell you what we're doing. I think it's a model for the future for us. Essentially, we started the packaging innovation gateway about four years ago. It was really all about helping brand owners take a new product and get it through the system, so that it went all the way t

Environment committee  Right now we're shipping waste from Ontario into Michigan. Close the border. The government can do that. You can ban what's going into landfill. So there are significant things that government can do to help us. Our consumer package goods community can design all we want and we

Environment committee  John, thanks very much. Ladies and gentlemen, we appreciate being here today to talk about a subject that I assure you is very near and dear to PAC Packaging Consortium's heart. Let me give you a little snapshot of who we are. We were founded in 1950 as the Packaging Associatio