SARAC feels that stewardship needs to take a more prominent role. It's enshrined in the preamble of SARA, and everyone around the table at SARAC sees its importance as a tool. We talked a little bit about the habitat stewardship program within our brief, but we recognize that this is not the only tool that could be employed. There's certainly the potential for section 11 agreements, which would be stewardship types of agreement with resource users or land owners, which would allow a much more fulsome stewardship arrangement under the act. But we have yet to see implementation of those measures. SARAC thinks there's potential within such agreements to deliver significant stewardship measures.
On June 2nd, 2009. See this statement in context.