Environment committee  Earlier you touched upon extended producer responsibility. You didn't get into it in great detail. I would be interested in how you, as representatives of industry, see this working out. I sense that there was some passive approval of the concept, but you were concerned how it

Environment committee  Mr. Valiante, I think it was you who suggested that recycled plastic is more expensive than virgin plastic, which is why recycling doesn't happen at the rate we'd like to see it happen. That's a hurdle that has to be overcome. Do you have any suggestions on how we do that?

Environment committee  Mr. Burt, do you want to respond to that?

Environment committee  I believe I heard Mr. Valiante mention the highly integrated nature of both the oil production and plastic production sectors. That implies a conflict of interest if we're looking at reducing the usage of plastic. Is that how you gentlemen see that? Obviously, a company that pr

Environment committee  I think you mentioned Carbon Engineering. Is that correct?

Environment committee  My question was how companies like Carbon Engineering and Merlin Plastics and other companies that are in this space can contribute to actually solving the plastics pollution crisis.

Environment committee  Could I ask either of you to comment on the addition of microbeads to the toxic chemicals list?

Environment committee  Mr. Valiante, will mechanical recycling and chemical recycling, if you consider those two processes together, capture all plastics?

Environment committee  You're saying those two processes would capture pretty well all plastics, including those that my colleague Mr. Lloyd referred to, which are plastic products with some colouring or paint on them. Those processes will take care of those products?

Environment committee  I just want to dispel this notion that there are some people, either around this table or in governments in Canada, who are not interested at all in addressing the issue of plastics pollution. Mr. Amos is quite incorrect. My sense from the governments across Canada, and certain

Environment committee  Call back the witnesses.

Environment committee  Minister, I want to remind you that in 2016 under your plan Canada fell 44 megatonnes short of meeting its Paris targets. In 2017, we fell 66 megatonnes short. In 2018, we fell behind 79 megatonnes. How can you say that your plan is working? Yours is simply a tax plan. It has no

Environment committee  It's not getting you there now.

Environment committee  With respect—

Environment committee  With respect, the Conservative Party doesn't lead government. The NDP doesn't lead government. The Green Party doesn't lead government. It is the Liberals who lead government. They were elected to lead and elected to come up with a plan. It's a plan that's a tax plan, not an envi