Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses, of course, for appearing as this committee undertakes the statutory review of the Species at Risk Act.
As an opening question, since we are reviewing the legislation and taking a look at our approach to how we will assess it, is the basic framework of SARA sound? Are we looking, for example, at simply making some adjustments to it, or is its fundamental approach in the wrong direction? Should we be looking at a different approach to it?
This will help us assess where we are, at the five-year mark, with this law. Is its fundamental approach right? Is the architecture sound and we just need to look at making some minor adjustments, or are we looking at perhaps a new approach to this?