Yes, that’s what they say. Give kids a playroom full of toys and give them a pile of cardboard boxes and which are they going to go for?

You can use it to confine your new litter of puppies or kittens in a cardboard box. You can use it as kindling. You can start your fireplace in your house. You can start your fire at the beach or out on the

land with cardboard. You can fold in the flaps and keep things cold or keep things warm in them. But our government has never said anything to retailers who crush, bundle the energy and the material that it takes to make a cardboard box. Yet, I tell you, a lot of times you couldn’t find a cardboard box to save your soul.

But I want to take my hat off today to those retailers, and I was at a grocery store in Yellowknife this morning, and I know in Hay River the grocery stores are the same way, they have a big bin at their checkout full of all various sizes of cardboard boxes. What a great thing. There is a recyclable, reusable thing. I know that when they get bundled up and hauled away they get recycled, as well, but not without a tremendous amount of energy being consumed to do that.

So I would just like to send a shout out to all those retailers who have the common sense to let customers use those cardboard boxes as containers to haul product away from their stores and don’t so quickly rush to crush them up so that we have to spend 25 cents on a plastic bag. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.