Mr. Chair, I want to come back to the action plans and recovery plans.
In your brief, you say that the resources needed to set up these recovery programs are clearly inadequate. Like Mr. Scarpaleggia, I would like to refer to the environment commissioner's report. I reread the March 2008 report, in which the commissioner notes that the “...Canadian Biodiversity Strategy clearly indicates that comprehensive and reliable inventories are a fundamental requirement for the conservation of biodiversity....” He goes on to say that “there is no comprehensive inventory of species at risk to provide the baseline information needed for the development of science-based recovery strategies and action plans”.
Does the lack of a comprehensive and reliable inventory, just like the lack of resources, largely explain why there are no appropriate and effective recovery plans and action plans?