Well, this is a legislative framework for sound environmental governance. It stipulates very little--with the exception of establishing a framework--and this paragraph 8(2)(b) is not an exhaustive list. It lists, by way of example, a suite of tools the government can avail itself of. Some of the tools may not even be known yet. They may not even be conceived of yet, so to speak, to the extent that policies are invented. But that's the nature of environmental management. The environment is constantly changing, and we have to use adaptive management even in managing and protecting the environment.
On April 28th, 2008. See this statement in context.