QUESTION PERIOD — Environment and Climate Change
Single-Use Plastics
June 13, 2019
My question is for the Leader of the Government in the Senate and has to do with the Trudeau government’s announcement about banning single-use plastics by 2021.
I would like to know the government’s position on certain medical equipment, such as plastic syringes and IV bags. Does the government also intend to ban single-use medical equipment? If so, what will be used to replace that equipment?
I thank the honourable senator for his question. He is raising an important question, which is why the Government of Canada undertook at the last federal-provincial-territorial meeting of ministers in the fall of last year a concerted action with respect to a Canada-wide strategy for zero single-use plastic waste. The discussions that are ensuing at the federal-provincial-territorial table are ones to deal with exactly the kind of situations that the honourable member raises.
