COSEWIC assesses the status of species overall in Canada. My point when I was speaking about northern species was that, particularly in Nunavut under the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement, there are particular obligations that the federal government must respect as they relate to consultation.
So if a species such as the ivory gull, for example, occurs in Nunavut, we have a special process that we must follow to engage with the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board to respect the NLC decision-making process. We must complete that before we can move forward for the listing overall for Canada. We can't separate out the Nunavut listing. We have to look at the entire listing as COSEWIC has defined it.
Sometimes COSEWIC will subdivide a species, but it is based on genetics. It's based on movement between populations. It's not based on saying, “Oh, there's like a jurisdictional boundary”.