Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to the witnesses for being here today.
This is the first review of SARA, or a continuation of it; we started it almost a year ago now, I think. As a little bit of history, it was in the early 2000s that the Liberal government made a number of attempts to get SARA through. There were three failed attempts, I think, because there was a lot of concern that SARA be written right and that there be appropriate compensation for properties that were identified as part of a critical habitat. SARA has a history of being difficult to get through.
Now we have SARA, and our duty is to find out what works, what doesn't work, and how SARA can be improved. That's our job, so we appreciate your sharing with us how the process is working.
You talked about the critical habitat. Are there socio-economic considerations when you identify a critical habitat or are there no socio-economic considerations?
There are none...?