Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I read someplace recently that governments need a department of common sense, and occasionally I have reason to believe that may be a good idea.
Mr. Speaker, have you ever gone looking for a cardboard box at a store? You know, our government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to implement a policy so that we don’t end up with plastic bags on our landscape and in our landfills because they do not break down. But at the same time they want retailers to charge 25 cents for a plastic bag to discourage the use of plastic bags and to encourage the use of a reusable bag or reusable container of some kind. But a lot of those same stores crush perfectly good cardboard boxes practically faster than they can unpack them.
You know, cardboard boxes are a great thing. I know this might sound kind of light-hearted, but they are great things. Think of all the things you can use cardboard boxes for. You can move things, you can store things, you can write on them with a magic marker, you can cut if up and use it for a winter front in your vehicle, you can store…
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