Mr. Speaker, I was just trying to acknowledge and point out the fact that in reality, ENR has been fairly progressive in terms of how we move on this type of issue, and we’re going to continue to be.
We’re going to come forward with a plan in the next number of weeks. We’re going to work with the committee. We’re going to lay out a fairly, I believe, ambitious plan that’s going to allow us to address things like plastic bags and expand on beverage containers. We’re going to look at cardboard. We want to look at electronic waste. We have the unresolved issue of tires.
I agree with the Member. I’ve been across every community in the Northwest Territories, and plastic bags are a blight on the landscape, literally. There’s no place that you walk in or around communities, from the 60th parallel, where I live in Fort Smith, or Ulukhaktok and any place in between…. If you look at the dumps, in the bush — no matter where you go — there are plastic bags. I agree that they’re a blight on the landscape. It’s time for us to take action on that.