David Krayden: Plastics Registry Is a Nightmare for Industry and a Farce for Canadians

Commentary Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault has decided Canada needs a plastics registry. But what he isn’t telling you is that while it may be possible to track the production of plastics, it is well-nigh impossible to detect where these materials are sent for disposal. If you think all those plastic bottles that you assiduously place into your blue recycling box every week are being shipped away for reuse and that somebody is actually making a healthy profit from this ecologically friendly exercise, think again. We should be wary when governments want to introduce “registries.” Remember the hated long gun registry that complicated the lives of farmers and hunters while creating another layer of bureaucracy to manage this insidious federal government invasion into the lives of law-abiding Canadians?...