Environment committee  I thank the member for her question. I would say that part of our approach is innovation. We need that innovation. I'll ask my colleague, Mr. Drouin, to speak to that.

Environment committee  I'll turn that question over to Nathalie Perron and Dany Drouin.

Environment committee  I will turn to Nathalie Perron.

Environment committee  Thank you for your question, Ms. Pauzé. I'll ask Mr. Drouin to speak to that.

Environment committee  Thanks for the question. We made changes to our regulations to require that, should a waste not be accepted in the receiving country, it's the responsibility of the waste exporter to manage the return of the waste to Canada. With respect to the specifics on the waste containers

Environment committee  I don't have the dollar figure at hand, but I can get the dollar figure for you and provide it to the committee.

Environment committee  Thanks for that question. I would say that our current regime controls the wastes in question in an adequate fashion and provides for the measures with respect to the authorities under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act and subsequently under our existing regulations. I

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. With respect to the Basel Convention, the Basel amendments on plastic waste, Canada accepted those amendments on December 29 of last year, so it's a very recent acceptance. In order for Canada to have accepted that, we needed to enter into an arrange

Environment committee  Thank you for that question. I should just note that while the United States is not subject to the Basel Convention, in order for Canada to ratify the Basel Convention, we had to enter into an arrangement with the U.S. to ensure the environmentally sound management of non-hazard

Environment committee  Thank you for the question. I would just like to point out that waste that is not disposed of in the United States and that is just in transit is subject to our regulation and does require an export permit. We track and monitor the material that is transited through the United S

Environment committee  It's just me that's speaking.

Environment committee  That's correct.

Environment committee  I'm doing the only opening statement.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. Good afternoon. My name is Helen Ryan and I'm the associate assistant deputy minister, as we just heard, for the Department of the Environment. I'm with the environmental protection branch of Environment and Climate Change Canada. I am accompanied today by

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