Look, the mitigation hierarchy is well recognized as a part of the protections for nature. It includes four aspects: avoid harming the species, minimize damage, restore what you're doing in an area to restore it to where it was, and offset. You're working down from that, the top one being to avoid, and you're working down the....
The cabinet directive that went out accompanying this includes that we should be working on these projects to put in place a mitigation hierarchy. That's really important. It's also part of the nature strategy that we put out, “A Force of Nature”. We know that we need to build big projects in our country, but as we do it, how are we going to make sure that we are protecting and conserving our lands?
I'll say just one quick thing. It's a bit of a side piece, but it's just that, out of deep respect for the work that you and people in your community do, one of the things the nature strategy included was a piece about how we recognize the work that ranchers do on their lands through other effective conservation models, methods and measures. That is something where we get to respect the work that Canadians do every day to protect their lands and show love for their lands.
