Thank you very much.
Let me address the second one first and the first one second, if I may.
In terms of the national sustainable development strategy, we talked about that a bit on Monday. What we've been encouraging, through our reports, is a federal government strategy, which would be part of a national strategy. But we audit the federal government, so it's a little hard for us to go beyond that.
Clearly, if an overarching federal government plan or strategy for sustainable development was put in place, certainly that would provide some help to the SEA process. It would give something for the SEA process to interact with and it would help with greening government operations, too, because a set of objectives, presumably, in that strategy would have to do with how the government is going to green what it does. So I think, yes, that would help.
In terms of the consequences for failing to protect habitat, I wouldn't really want to suggest that putting things in legislation or consequences in legislation is a good thing here. But good management should have, as part of it, rewards for doing things well and some kind of consequence for doing things poorly.
In that sense, if habitat isn't being protected properly, one of the consequences presumably would be that the deputy minister and his or her staff who are responsible for protecting habitat would be called summarily, from time to time, to a committee like this in a public, televised hearing, with their feet held squarely to the fire, and asked, “What are you going to do about it? The Canadian people are depending on you. Why are you letting them down?”
I've seen that happen over 30 years of being in this business, and it may not be very nice, but I think it's important to close the accountability loop like this. That, I think, would be a set of consequences that people would react to, if I may suggest.