Industry committee  We work with other countries, the World Customs Organization and the CBSA. We've participated in an operation called Demeter. It's a coordinated, targeted enforcement operation with maybe 18 or 20 countries where enforcement officers would target containers, open containers and l

Industry committee  Currently, we just launched consultations to amend our regulations. It's publicly available. It's the beginning of the consultation process. It will lead to amending our regulations to do two things. One of these is increasing the stringency of the controls on e-waste—something t

Industry committee  There's a lot in the question, and it goes back to the international regime on the movement of waste. At the core of it is the Basel Convention, which is an international agreement that Canada signed and ratified. The cornerstone of trade is prior and informed consent, so nobody

Industry committee  The voluntary approach is usually very useful if you're dealing with a small number of willing companies. In that case, you always have a different approach, which is that if the voluntary approach doesn't work, regulatory tools could be used. Often, in environmental protection,

Industry committee  Plastic waste exports have officially been controlled since January 1, 2021. The vast majority is going to the United States. I don't have the tonnage, but most export waste goes to the U.S.

Industry committee  It could be both. We don't have a clear division of stats on those two. What I can say, though, is that you need an export permit to export outside of Canada. If the waste transits through the U.S., you still need the permit.

Industry committee  Yes. The regulation works in such a way that if the waste is covered under one of the annexes of the Basel Convention, which lists different types of waste, and has hazardous characteristics that are portrayed in that waste, it triggers our regulation. Our regulations also get t

Environment committee  Yes, correct. In the context of the CCME work, yes. For example, we had participants from PT—

Environment committee  The answer is no. The 9% comes from the Deloitte study, which does not include any figures for exported plastic waste.

Environment committee  The work to track the progress towards zero plastic waste, including the greenhouse gas emissions and the jobs, is under way. We're working in particular with Statistics Canada. Currently we don't have these numbers tracked; we're developing the framework and looking at the data

Environment committee  Correct. It's through the materials flow studies that are published every second year, which you probably contributed to, as you pointed out.

Environment committee  Thank you, Ms. Ryan. The work on recycled content and other standards is being implemented by the department, working closely with the provinces and territories. On recycled content in particular, in the discussion paper that was published in October there were potential avenu

Environment committee  If it's okay, Mr. Chair, I will start, and I think you'll benefit from the expertise of both Nathalie Perron and Laura Farquharson. I want to clarify that the plastic amendments of the Basel Convention were accepted by Canada in December, so they're now in effect. On the questi

Environment committee  CEPA does not define plastic or plastic waste. The regulations that we have in place would consider waste as hazardous or non-hazardous, based on the fact that.... For example, if it's hazardous under Canadian regulations, or if the receiving country prohibits or just doesn't wan

Environment committee  Thank you. There are a few points to say on this one. The transboundary movement of plastic waste is a responsibility of the federal government. The CEPA allows for issuing permits to municipalities, but to provinces and territories first, to manage the recycling and the treatme