(Montreal) The Conservative Party of Canada (PCC) invites Canadians to sign a petition to “save plastic straws” and one of its MPs calls for the cancellation of the summit on plastic pollution which brings together plastic negotiators in Ottawa. 176 countries.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Conservative Party of Canada’s X account posted a link to a petition that calls on “the House of Commons to follow the Constitution and end the ban on plastic straws by voting for the proposed Bill C-380, which demonstrates common sense.”
To sign the petition, authorized by the chief agent of the PCC and hosted on the party’s website, you must enter your personal information. On the same page, a red button invites Canadians to make “a donation today to help Pierre Poilievre and our team of common-sense Conservatives.”
Meanwhile in Ottawa, representatives from 176 countries have been meeting since Monday for the fourth round of negotiations aimed at creating a global treaty to eliminate plastic waste.
Due to its impact on nature and growing concerns about human health, ending plastic waste is widely supported by countries gathered in the capital, but how to get there divides negotiators.
The aim of the summit is to finalize an agreement by the end of the year, a goal established by a United Nations (UN) resolution adopted in March 2022.
“Cancel radical international meeting”
For his part, Conservative MP Corey Tochor, who initiated the petition to save plastic straws, believes that “if the government really cared about Canadians and the planet, it would cancel the radical international meeting on ‘ban on plastics’.
MP Tochor made the statement last Thursday during second reading of Bill C-380, a private member’s bill that seeks to amend the Canadian Environmental Protection Act “in order to remove manufactured plastic items from the list of toxic substances found in Schedule 1 of the Act”.