Also, I wish to thank Ms. Gelfand for expressing something earlier that has been bothering me for quite some time, and that is the disproportion that we seem to have developed in our approach to the environment toward balancing issues like habitat preservation and wildlife protection against the greenhouse gas issue. The greenhouse gas issue is the headline-grabbing, political point-scoring issue. It's a sad irony that Canada produces something in the order of 2% of the world's greenhouse gases, yet has such a wealth of biodiversity, and that the political chase is driving us into putting so many resources into greenhouse gases, perhaps at the expense of biodiversity.
Having said that, I want to begin with a question that may seem a little out of left field for you, because you haven't spoken at all about the issue of enforcing SARA. I don't know whether your committee has considered that or whether your committee is familiar with Bill C-16, the environmental enforcement bill, and the fact that it specifically did not comment on SARA because SARA was going to be before this committee. I wonder, if you are familiar with the environmental enforcement bill, if you might feel that the kinds of legal powers that were given to judges and the kinds of increases in penalties and other provisions that were contained therein, might be usefully adapted to SARA.