M-80 Styrofoam in acquatic infrastructure

That:

(a) the House recognize that expanded (EPS) and extruded (XPS) polystyrene (commonly known as styrofoam) in aquatic infrastructure entering the environment could have serious harmful effects; and

(b) in the opinion of the House, the government should,

(i) take immediate measures to ban the use of EPS and XPS in construction of floating structures in the aquatic environment, encased or not, under the Canadian Environmental Protection Act, 1999,

(ii) establish an action plan to phase out all legacy EPS and XPS floating structures across all aquatic environments in Canada.