The purpose of the levy is to be a significant enough deterrent to make people keep in mind as they’re going to go shopping the need to look at alternatives, reusable bags and such. The concern is, in other jurisdictions with the low fee they found that after a relatively short spike people just consider the five cents incidental and it does little over the long term to deter the kind of use that we’re looking at trying to do. The Member sent me an e-mail just before coming into the House with the suggestion about a tiered approach, a phased-in approach, and I’ve already sent that to the department. As we look over the next number of months, we’ll consider that option as well.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 261-16(3): Levy On Single-Use Plastic Bags
In the Legislative Assembly on March 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.
Question 261-16(3): Levy On Single-Use Plastic Bags
Oral Questions
March 4th, 2009
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