Thank you to all the witnesses here today.
I'm just caught up in all this talk about caribou, so I'm going to continue on that theme.
Dr. Dragon and Dr. Dubé, you mentioned one project—I forget exactly where it was—in which caribou numbers increased by four times or something. That's remarkable, considering the trajectory of caribou populations farther south in the mountains, where I live.
I'm trying to get at this difference between western science and indigenous knowledge. You mentioned linear features being a problem. If you were to replant...? Is that what happened? Do you change those linear features?
I think that western scientists have known for a long time that linear features are bad for caribou, but they do a study and it gets published and becomes “knowledge”, and that's it. In the projects that you're dealing with, is that indigenous knowledge more a part of a process that is really interlinked with policy so that changes actually happen on the ground? Is that a difference, would you say?
I just want to say that we need to get you guys down to southern B.C. to work on caribou.