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Environment committee  It's harmonization at the municipal level.

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  I think that's a wonderful story—

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  —and I totally agree with it. I absolutely agree with it. We are a consumption society, and we have nobody to blame but ourselves for that. We absolutely don't. We talk about what the federal government can do. There is a solution out there and it's a big, big idea. It's a big,

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  Probably at Health Canada, maybe something to do with food safety...?

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  Yes. That's called PCR, post-consumer resins. Again, in terms of one of the speakers we're going to have on May 30, they're taking polypropylene. There's a great story in Quebec. It's a Canadian story that this government should be behind. They're going to scale with a full-b

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  With EPR regulation coming down—it's been around in Canada for some time—in British Columbia, you have 100% paid for by the producers now. Ontario is at 50%, and they're reviewing that. Quebec is 100%.

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  I'm sorry. Where was that?

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  I think it's the only province in the country that doesn't have it. Sorry.

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  The producers have stepped up in the provinces where they're taking it. They're saying they're prepared for this.

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  What you're asking is very difficult. I think the point that I was trying to make earlier with the image of Walmart and all of those logos on the slide was to communicate to you that the big, powerful packaged goods companies and retailers out there, certainly in Canada, are ver

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  That's really good question. I have been around in Ontario drinking beer for a long time, so I know this system real well. I think this is the best way to answer your question. Look at the way beer was marketed in Ontario through the Beer Store. The Beer Store is owned by the b

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  Without repeating myself, and with what everybody else has said, it is, simply put, “harmonization”, in my mind.

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham

Environment committee  If you can get to that and can give the CCME some teeth to help or direct them to mandate harmonization downwards, so that the provinces and the territories take this back, then we can be recovering all the same thing in all the provinces with the same message to every single con

May 6th, 2019Committee meeting

James D. Downham