Potentially affected industry stakeholders were made aware of the Green Manitoba consultation, invited to the one-day consultation workshop, and provided the opportunity to prepare formal written submissions about the GM process. Over 3,200 organizations were contacted at least twice prior to the stakeholder workshop.

The GM industry stakeholder workshop, including webcast, was held on October 25, 2005 in Winnipeg and consisted of a presentation of the new policy direction and framework in which industry stewardship programs were going to be developed in Manitoba and interactive breakout sessions in the afternoon for each of the three material streams. Overall, the industry stakeholder workshop included 52 participants who attended in person and 84 participants who listened to the web cast session.

Based on verbal comments during the session and written submissions received later, it was concluded that industry stakeholders that have participated to date are broadly familiar with the concepts of product stewardship and extended producer responsibility; recognize that these policy approaches are being adopted by provincial governments across Canada; agree in principle with the broad policy framework outlined by GM; and express a willingness to work cooperatively with GM to further develop this policy framework as the key next step towards implementing new stewardship programs in Manitoba.