Environment committee  —on our good neighbours to the south. You know, we have an agreement with the United States, a treaty on the implementation of Basel. We've done the right thing here. We have an agreement to cover this extension of Basel, so let's just be cautious in the rhetoric we have with o

Environment committee  I'll defer again to my colleague Ms. Mantagaris.

Environment committee  There are two key things. One is regulations, as Ms. St. Godard just said. The targets are regulated and you need to achieve them, and they're being raised as we speak. The second is harmonization. One of the challenges in Ontario—you've heard me say this before—is that you hav

Environment committee  I really don't have anything to add. I think you've answered your question. Elena, I don't know if you have anything to add there.

Environment committee  First is the commitment to make sure that the plastic packaging can be and will be recycled. That is the goal defined by all of our members, including Dow and other companies. Second is to work with other stakeholders so that materials are recovered and are recycled by 2040. Whe

Environment committee  No. Again, it's a categorical “no” to the bill as written. Do we support the Basel Convention? Absolutely. Do we support other means to address plastic waste? Absolutely. A one-sentence bill for a complex issue like this, given the size of the economy you're talking about and t

Environment committee  Absolutely, thank you, yes. Everyone has been very open to discussing this bill.

Environment committee  Again, we'll go back to some of the numbers. We are focused here on solving a problem that represents something far less than 5% of Canada's or North America's exported waste, and then the portion of it that's not recycled is even smaller. I'm not discounting the environmental is

Environment committee  It would not do so entirely. I think you have to come up with a very clear definition of “final disposal”. Also, as discussed, you will still have mixed bales, mixed loads of plastic. One of the main concerns is that the bill has to be crafted in a way that allows the integrate

Environment committee  I'm going to defer to my colleague Ms. Mantagaris on this one. I've handled most of the questions, and her voice deserves to be heard. I think she was hoping to talk more about some of the solutions.

Environment committee  Well, if you look at the text of the Basel Convention, where you had 170 countries involved, you see that it's a comprehensive piece. If you also look at what's in the Canada-U.S. agreement that was finalized last year, you see there are a lot of details there too. Certainly we

Environment committee  Absolutely, and there's much work under way to do that through the zero plastic waste action plan from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Again, I feel as though I'm on the wrong side of an argument here. I agree with what our colleagues are saying. Sending un

Environment committee  First, I'm not aware that trade with the U.S. has increased. It was mentioned earlier that Canada generates about three and a quarter million tonnes of plastic waste a year. Roughly 10% of that is recycled, and about 150,000 tonnes a year is exported. Most of that goes to the U.S

Environment committee  We are acting now. We have the zero plastic waste action plan from the Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment. Every one of those elements is to be introduced and worked on. At this point, as Mr. Albas mentioned, we have a full producer responsibility program in B.C.

Environment committee  That's a lot to cover in a very short period of time.