Now, when it comes to habitat protection, the federal government has--and remind me of what the act says, I guess--obviously jurisdiction on its lands. But when it comes to habitat that either straddles federal and provincial lands or is completely on provincial land, where do the federal government's powers begin and end?
For example, when it comes to the oil sands, you say there has been a major decline in woodland caribou, and we've heard the same from people like Dr. Schindler who say that even with SAGD technology, it can scare the caribou for hundreds of miles. All this exploration is taking place on provincial leases, yet it's affecting your treaty rights with the federal government.
How do we handle all of this? I think it's frustrating everybody. How do we handle the situation when it's in provincial jurisdiction yet it's affecting Treaty No. 8, which the federal government has a fiduciary responsibility for? How do we make sense of it all?