[icegreentea2]

By having nuanced legislation and regulation?

This isn't a formal declaration of rule making, or legislation, simply a declaration of intent from the Prime Minister. There's no formal weight behind this (except probably to start getting internal government bodies working on policy).

There's lot of time and room for sane (or dumb) rules to come out of this.

Medical (and similar) use exceptions are common. For example RoHS initially had a medical device exemption (and still has an implantable device exemption).

[chrisseaton]

So the headline is just absolute bollocks and means nothing when you start to interrogate it? Oh ok.

[moonsu]

Do you expect a headline to tell you the whole story?

[chrisseaton]

Why not 'reduce use of single-use plastics'? Or 'ban some'? Really easy to make the headline more truthful.

[mthoms]

Not really necessary. A reasonable person would take it exactly how it was intended: "Canada will ban all single use plastics (except where health or safety are at stake)." It's kind of, you know, implied.

Of course they're not going to require that hospitals re-use syringes and the like.