Environment committee  As we mentioned, the bill targets the final disposal. When we're talking about a shipment and an export, that would be a different activity.

Environment committee  In terms of any of the activities we undertake, we have a limited amount of resources available to us, and we target our resources based on priorities. I can't speak to the specifics in terms of what actions would be taken on a specific case. Those would be specific to the enforc

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. I'll turn to Richard Tarasofsky to answer.

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. As we previously heard, the capacity of our landfill sites, in addition to our waste management and recycling facilities, is stretched. Adding material for them to handle will be very challenging and potentially could be very problematic with respect

Environment committee  I will turn to my colleague, Nathalie Perron, to speak to the Basel Convention.

Environment committee  With respect to the term “final disposal”, the way in which we deal with it under our requirements is through our regulations. What Madam Perron indicated is that our regulations make reference to the same list of materials that are identified in the Basel Convention. It's not th

Environment committee  CEPA does not contain a definition of final disposal. The types of measures that are controlled are subsequently defined specifically by regulation.

Environment committee  There was an important amendment made to our regulations. I'll let Nathalie Perron speak to the specifics of that.

Environment committee  It's important to remember that if waste is transiting through the United States but destined for final disposal elsewhere, it is subject to our regulations and is subject to a permit. We need the prior, informed consent of the country to which it's destined. If they're doing som

Environment committee  As part of our comprehensive approach to zero plastic waste, we issued a discussion paper for public comment. One of the elements of that is the approach to banning problematic single-use plastics. We worked jointly with our colleagues at Health Canada in the drafting of that and

Environment committee  Yes, we can confirm.

Environment committee  We issued a discussion paper. As well, we put forward a proposal for public comment on adding plastic manufactured items to schedule 1 of CEPA. These are the first steps in our regulatory process. We're currently assessing the comments with respect to the discussion paper. Decisi

Environment committee  I'll turn to Nathalie Perron to answer that question.

Environment committee  I'm not in a position to give you the specifics, as the approval and licensing of landfill sites are not done by the federal government for domestic material. We do know that these things can take many years.

Environment committee  Mr. Chair, I thank the member for her question. That's part of the zero plastic waste initiative that we launched with the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. In fact, we are aiming much higher. I will ask Mr. Drouin to elaborate on that.