Environment committee  The one that ties them together would be, as I've just mentioned, using conservation management agreements with people who have rights on the land, including companies, to frame the necessary monitoring to do adaptive management—collectively people monitor things to make better decisions as you go through the management of human activities in that area—and to provide the mechanism for incentives and stewardship measures, which everybody needs—

Environment committee  There are international definitions available. I would point you to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, and the Convention on Biological Diversity. They have a definition. Everybody in this room may have a different understanding about what biological diversity includes.

Environment committee  Thank you. That is a great question. I would answer it framed by risk, because in our personal lives, right up to nations and even our planet, as we heard yesterday at the carbon pricing event held by the Canada 2020 organization, this is now beyond a doubt. Of course there will always be information gaps, whether it's science or collated local indigenous knowledge.

Environment committee  Good morning. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'd like to build today on the presentation that my colleague Linda Nowlan, from our Vancouver office, gave to the committee on May 15 of last year on the national conservation plan, and refer you to some of the specifics in there. I'm specifically tailoring my presentation to the six questions that the committee asked us to address.