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Environment committee I'm not aware, but that's also DFO.
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee I just know it's number one on the list.
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee There are three numbers. The 150 million includes fishing nets, largely. That's the large portion that comes from sea-based or aquatic activities—fishing gear and those kinds of things. It tends to be very heavy, so you go from eight million to 150 million. Then, in the Canadian
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee Right now, we don't have any specific reporting requirements. Reporting requirements would be attached to regulations and we're not specifically regulating plastic waste, but there are a lot of different aspects that are there.
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee You did very well. It's nearly all covered. Indeed, Stats Can is really kind of our baseline, and that is who we'll be turning to in order to measure some of the overall progress when we look at how much is disposed and how much is recycled. We're going to be also, hopefully, wo
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee This year, in support of the agenda, we carved out some of our resources to do exactly that, to support community action and to also support some third party organizations that are going to do education around a number of issues related to plastic waste. We have up to about seven
May 13th, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee That's another million-dollar question.
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee Specific to plastics, as you know, there isn't one. One of the many categories is not exactly plastics; it's packaging. There are also automotive products, textiles and construction. The first thing that provinces did was to put in place their legislative authorities, because w
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin
Environment committee I think you asked the million-dollar question. It's one that we've pondered a lot as well, especially when the public's attention is on straws and bags. We'll happily share some stats with you. One of the reasons we're looking at the entire system, and some big parts of the syste
April 1st, 2019Committee meeting
Jacinthe Seguin