Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for appearing today.
That was an interesting question by Mr. McGuinty with respect to compensation. I hope he shares those same thoughts with another Mr. McGuinty with respect to greenbelt legislation.
But I'll go on to the matter at hand, which is the Species at Risk Act. My question revolves around how SARA does or doesn't act with respect to municipal land. How do we protect species at risk on lands that are municipally zoned? Or can we? I'm thinking of my region, which has the most plant and animal species at risk of anywhere in Canada.
What if a plant that's particularly rare to Canada is located on municipal land? Can SARA help protect that or not? Is that left to things like environmental assessments when proponents decide they want to build something on a particular piece of land?