Environment committee  Both are not desirable but they are examples of two components within an act that hasn't yet been fully implemented. I liken it to a toolkit. So far, you've been pulling out a couple of screwdrivers and a hammer, but you have 17 other tools in there, which if you want to build th

Environment committee  I mentioned it before, but I'll say it again. Just focusing on one, which is the full use of the agreement provisions within the Species at Risk Act, sections 11, 12, 13, 73, and there's a pile of others. Those are the incentive-based vehicles where there is discretion. The minis

Environment committee  To this point, the advisory committee has been advising the minister and the ADMs, etc., for about four years. We're told we can't see the very first draft conservation agreement, which is in your neck of the woods with the first nations, but we're not allowed to be—it's at Justi

Environment committee  Use conservation agreements, across all habitats for species at risk in Canada, with all the tenure holders.

Environment committee  I don't think I can for that one. I was just using that as an example in the context of filling an information gap. It is a riverine health assessment. Again it will be the freshwater example of watershed planning, including managing the adjacent riparian areas and agricultural w

Environment committee  In some cases it does. The good examples would be the white pelican and peregrine falcon. Peregrines I know well. I'm a bird guy. For 30 or 40 years we looked at the threats. We did captive breeding. We worked to protect critical nest sites, and we put captive-reared peregrines b

Environment committee  Yes, the right level of grazing, informed by the right information.

Environment committee  In general, this is where the network comes in because we don't know everything. We can't engineer everything, so what you want to do is leave a network of natural areas alone so that nature, Mother Earth, is really the one that works out which species are going to thrive and whi

Environment committee  I agree it's a ridiculous interpretation. Yes, I know that example very well and that's exactly why I and the Columbia hydro association and others are working on this permitting component tied to watershed-level, in this case, ecosystem-level planning, so that those silly lawsui

Environment committee  In implementing the plan at that scale, yes.

Environment committee  Within the frame of that plan—

Environment committee  —yes.

Environment committee  I'd like to suggest that time is the key thing that unites what we're talking about. None of this was scripted, but I agree with absolutely everything my fellow presenters say. It's not about four months, or four years. It might be about four decades. Habitat conservation, heal

Environment committee  Yes. As I say, hopefully everybody is so motivated, it would just need to be tooled up to achieve what we're after.

Environment committee  Obviously not, not yet.