Industry committee  We can support our customers in some ways, but in other ways we need to be there. It's been enormously difficult for us to get people across the border to provide the necessary services to keep the production of things, like these IV connectors, going, and at the same time to get

Industry committee  Thank you very much. We look at the challenge of getting the right people and ensuring the skills bridge is there in Canada, because this is critical. The world is moving quickly. The requirement for technology is there, and digitalization is having a role in everything we do.

Industry committee  Okay, but I'm going to start on plastics again, where I can speak more broadly. On plastics, it really comes down to three primary issues. The biggest problem worldwide, which has been solved by Norway and Germany—so I'm using their examples for how it can be done—is to establish

Industry committee  That's a great question. I don't know that I have a perfect answer. The point, however, is that it is exactly what we need to do. First of all, we have to begin with the dialogue. How do I green my business? Do we agree on the same goals at the end, to lessen the impact on the e

Industry committee  Thank you very much, everyone, for giving me the opportunity to talk at this very important point. I'll have a slightly different approach from the people who preceded me. I work for Husky, and we ultimately convert raw materials into finished goods. I've spent almost 37 years o

Environment committee  That's exactly what it does. It's uncertainty. We talk about the issues of jobs and investment; it's the uncertainty that's driving that investment out of Canada. What it means is that we're going to remain dependent on imported goods. As we've seen, I think, in difficult times,

Environment committee  No, I've been with this company forever. I started in the print room and worked my way up to CEO. I have lived in Europe and travelled abroad, so I'm very familiar with the history of Husky. We've always been strong advocates for the reuse of a reusable material. Yes, I—

Environment committee  We were actually supportive. As a matter of fact, to bring industry together, we chaired the committee that came up with the standards on the new closure, because we saw we were stumbling individually. We chaired a committee to bring forward the new standard of a tethered closure

Environment committee  The answer is yes. Fundamentally, that's the issue. Yes, you have hybrids and you have mixtures of materials and additives. However, if we look at the primary plastics, what most people maybe don't understand is.... Let's look at this model, at PET. Well, heart stents, things t

Environment committee  I'm against the designation.

Environment committee  Absolutely, there is. I think you may be aware of the fact that already the U.S. has cited concerns over trade today and— [Technical difficulty—Editor] Something is going on there.

Environment committee  I'll try again. So yes— [Technical difficulty—Editor] Will I try to speak over that and just keep going?

Environment committee  You may be aware that already the U.S. has launched a concern regarding the concept of the trade agreement between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and the fact that this unfairly influences importers of goods—plastic articles—from the U.S. into Canada. I'll leave that out of there,

Environment committee  It was more to the extent of the definition being appropriate and singling out plastics [Technical difficulty—Editor] 34 million tonnes of municipal waste per year, and plastic packaging, which seems to be a big part of this dialogue, represents 5% of that. As I mentioned earli

Environment committee  Over the course of last year we hired a professional polling company also, so we did our own poll, and we introduced information. You're correct that initially the response to plastics was negative. We introduced two fundamental concepts to that same group of people going throu