Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses who are here today. It's very good for democracy when people take the time to come to inform legislators.
As I have been listening to the evidence, not just today but over the months we've been studying SARA, it occurs to me that SARA really is an attempt to put a square peg in a round hole. In a certain sense, all human activity is fundamentally inconsistent with a completely pristine environment, so what we're attempting to do, and what it's really all about, is finding the right balance. We have 33 million people co-existing with acres of diverse species and we have to find the right balance.
I'd like to tackle something that hasn't been discussed today but is of interest to me, because I have a feeling it's one of the biggest challenges under SARA and I find it referred to in the report on behalf of the NWMB.
Mr. d'Eça, what I'm referring to in your written brief is a reference to the fact that only 16 critical habitats, or 17%, have been identified. First, I want to get the parameters of that. I'm assuming that is a statistic for the whole of Canada, not just for Nunavut. Is that correct?