Let's do that, and then we'll come back to this, because that might help us understand what we can tackle in another way, as you suggested.
Discussions with many of you, on the side, have been that there would be value in going and seeing those who are trying to deal with the challenges in Banff, with the numbers of visitors who are coming, and balancing that with the needs of the ecological viability of the place. That was brought forward. I thought that was interesting.
There also was a discussion on the importance of where we're moving forward in our study looking at first nations, and how we can work better with them on our protected areas and how we might consider including that into meeting our targets, and how they do things and it's different. There was a suggestion of the Haida Gwaii area. There was also a suggestion of the Great Bear Rainforest. These are two areas that are really well led by first nations. They've done things a little differently, and we might want to consider that before we actually draft our instructions.
I'll just frame the discussions I've had with people.
Then there were some of the issues to the north, in the Northwest Territories, and we had a speaker here talking about that, and how maybe we need to think differently about how we want to move forward on our parks.
Then there was a bit on the east coast, but mostly it was to the west and to the north. There was Waterton Lakes, which was Mr. Shields'...we have to go to Waterton Lakes. I've been to Waterton Lakes, and I think there's an element of interest there because it straddles the border. There's the U.S. and the things that they're doing, and there's us. So there was that aspect as well, to see the two aspects there, and what they do better than us, what we do better than them, and how it works on the landscape.
Waterton Lakes, Banff, Haida Gwaii, Great Bear Rainforest, and something to the north were all in the discussions that I had with people. I thought personally all of them had validity in our research.
Okay, I'm opening the floor.
Mr. Eglinski.