I think I suggested in my main presentation that one of the themes we see in part 3 of Bill C-38 is a lack of respect for, or appreciation of, or knowledge of the fact that we live in an ecosystem. Labelling different types of fish, the ones that are commercially or culturally valuable, really ignores that those fish also rely on other fish and other aquatic species and plant species and a healthy ecosystem to live in.
Taken together, all of the amendments in part 3, particularly the ones with the new CEAA and Fisheries amendments, as well as the Species at Risk ones, culminate in this very closed perspective, as though each project happens in its own little room and doesn't impact anything outside of it. We don't look at cumulative effects properly. We don't look at biodiversity. We don't look at ecosystems.
This actually could help industry in the longer term. We need to take proper care of our resources if we want to use them for a longer term. We need to keep proper care of our water if we want people in agriculture or in the extractive industries to use water. We need it to be available.
We need to look at the bigger picture and how things actually influence one another.