That's an interesting question in many respects. Many people feel that the sole purpose of COSEWIC is simply to provide advice to the federal government for the purposes of including species on the national legal list, for which there might then be recovery strategies required if they're a threatened or endangered species, or a management plan if it's a species of special concern. Under those circumstances, if the federal government does indeed accept COSEWIC's advice and includes species on schedule 1 of SARA, there might well be consequences or limitations on activities by people, such as prohibitions in terms of killing or harming individual--
