Certainly the federal government cannot compel Alberta to provide information or make information public, but what we can do—and I think that's what we are trying to accomplish through the recovery strategy—is a national strategy that would inform actions on the ground. I think all members here would be aware that the caribou is a provincially or territorially managed species, as opposed to a federal species such as my colleagues in DFO manage, or migratory birds that Environment Canada manages.
So we need to be mindful of the fact that this recovery strategy will help inform actions on the ground. Despite the fact that we do not have a national recovery strategy at the moment, what we do know is actions are occurring across various jurisdictions. Plans are in place. So it's not as if everything is on hold until we get the national recovery strategy in place. Actions are under way trying to address the caribou. But I will flag again the boreal woodland caribou, 39,000 animals spread across I don't know if it's half of Canada, but it certainly is a good third of the country. It is a complicated species to be able to say that this is critical habitat, and if this occurs on the landscape, they have destroyed that critical habitat. That is a challenge: to be able to define in a national context such lightly dispersed species across such a wide distribution.