So the degree to which COSEWIC.... COSEWIC has very limited opportunities to contribute to such an inventory. We certainly use existing inventories as a basis for deciding which species to undertake new status assessments on, but in fact we have a fairly limited capacity to undertake new assessments.
Right now, we have a capacity to assess the status of about 60 or 70 species a year, but at present most of those are species reassessments or reviews of the classifications of species we have already assessed. At present, we examine the status of new species for about 15 species per year. So we have a limited capacity even if we did have a full inventory.
Do I think as a scientist and a biologist that it would be a good idea? I think it absolutely would be a good idea.