Thank you for that question, because the “regions of national interest” piece is one of the pieces that I am the most excited about when I look at the opportunities. I think it builds on what we had in our “A Force of Nature” strategy when we talked about building well, which was pillar two, and about mapping species at risk and mapping carbon-rich or carbon-dense areas. This next piece, “regions of national interest”, kind of takes the next step, building on that.
Regional assessments in the past—and Terry could go on quite a bit about some of the ones in the past, I'm sure—have been about the cumulative impacts, but they haven't been of the standard we're talking about when we're talking about regions of national interest. A region of national interest would go deeper. Part of it includes the importance of consultations. What we're looking at is for one project type....
Let's say that you're in an area, and you look at, if projects are to be built in this area, the following: What is the situation for species at risk? What is the situation for carbon-rich areas? Let's get a sense of this area. What would be the cumulative impacts if we built projects like that in this area? Then it is also the added piece of doing consultation with indigenous peoples to actually get a sense of what the pluses and minuses are to going ahead with a project in this region.