Environment committee  I think I can safely say that it's our opinion that it's all of us. We are all contributing to this problem, and we all have to increase our awareness and understanding of the issue and to step up. If we look at Canadian shoreline cleanup data, we can find identifiable items lik

Environment committee  I think there's certainly a role to encourage monitoring through liquid waste discharge permits at the provincial scale, but also in studying what ends up in the plant versus what goes to biosolids or solid waste, because there is that distinction. Based on our initial study last

Environment committee  Sure. Thank you very much. When we talk about education and we combine it with plastic, we create a very complicated spectrum of opportunities in Canada. The first thing I would say is, let's talk about plastic. Plastic is in all walks of life. We at Ocean Wise espouse a “plast

Environment committee  That is one kind of categorization, but if you're wearing polyester clothing or nylon clothing, there's no recycling of that, and there's no labelling of that. If you have plastic packaging, a lot of the single-use disposable plastic packaging is not labelled. The problem with p

Environment committee  Thank you, Mr. Godin. I'm very pleased with your question, because it emphasizes the importance and relevance of starting a national discussion on what must be done, particularly with regard to consumption, product choices or recycling. To advance the debate on plastics, which

Environment committee  Hello to the east coast of Canada, one of our three very important coastlines. The billions and billions of dollars in terms of natural resources and commercial, sport, recreational and indigenous fisheries are something we want to protect. The first point I would make in respon

Environment committee  That's a great question. As a scientist, I'm trained to identify problems and inform solutions. In my view, the solutions come from the private sector that designs and produces products and looks at the life cycle of that product, at the procurement and design of that product.

Environment committee  Thank you very much. I'm delighted to join you today from rainy Vancouver via video link. My apologies for not being there in person. My name is Dr. Peter Ross. I'm vice-president of research at the Ocean Wise Conservation Association in Vancouver. We at Ocean Wise, formerly t