Environment committee  Yes, I absolutely agree that education and changing our behaviour are the key in the long run. I just want to get back quickly to importing plastics. I think I heard you say that currently we don't know what percentage of the plastics we deal with in Canada is imported, versus what percentage is local and made in Canada.

Environment committee  What kinds of things should we be looking at in terms of our trade agreements around plastics?

Environment committee  I can't remember whether it was the renewable fuels industry or a witness we had, but in Quebec there was a ban on recyclables going into landfills. I'm not sure whether that was a municipal ban or a provincial ban in general, but—

Environment committee  I'm trying to remember. It seemed to have led to a plant right next door to the landfill where they were creating fuels out of material that otherwise would have gone into the landfill. I'm just wondering whether Quebec has a law around plastics recycling.

Environment committee  But there are some jurisdictions that already have.... I know that at least one or two of you said that we need to ban recyclables' going into landfills. Is that already in place in some locations?

Environment committee  Fibres.

Environment committee  I'm sure we could.

Environment committee  Thank you. I have two quick questions for Environmental Defence and the Packaging Consortium. For Environmental Defence, you talked about government setting high standards. Things like single-use plastics are perhaps fairly easy to identify, but when we talk about high standards, there are so many different kinds of products.

Environment committee  To the Packaging Consortium, Mr. Downham or Mr. Lantz, is there a best plastic that might be really boring because it doesn't have colour in it, doesn't have a bunch of things? Can we get to a standard that's better for recycling? Second, in terms of packaging in general, we've said that the packaging that goes into vegetables can't be recycled at all, so could the industry instead switch to a plastic that could be recycled for vegetables, or use containers rather than throwaway plastics?

Environment committee  In the end, I wonder if it's better, then, if the government's going to ban anything, to ban certain type of plastics rather than certain types of products.

Environment committee  I'm curious. I don't whether any of you have looked into it, but how much of the plastic products that we deal with in Canada come from other countries versus what we actually produce in Canada? That could change where the emphasis needs to be if we're going to do a better job around plastics.

Environment committee  I'm wondering whether what we allow into Canada needs to be part of free trade agreement discussions in the future.

Environment committee  Thank you.

Environment committee  Thank you for being with us today. I'm assuming we're now at seven and a half minutes. I want to take a different approach, perhaps, and I'll start with Madam Dionne. You mentioned there are a number of things that make recycling plastic problematic, like colours, additives, etc.

Environment committee  My is for Mr. Valiante, and potentially Mr. Burt. The “one size doesn't necessarily fit all” approach is one of the statements we've heard when it comes to plastic pollution. I'm interested in your perspective. When you're looking at reduce, reuse, recycle and recovery, does it make sense to set legislated timelines by sector—for the electronic sector, the textile sector and single-use plastics, sector by sector?