I won't speak to bison because our members don't operate in that area.
In regard to boreal caribou and the first question, which I think you posed to Mr. McGuinness, the Government of Canada needs to be careful, when it dives down, not to go too far, to population levels where possible.... I think we want to deal with species at risk and not populations at risk, generally speaking. There may be cases where you will have to make decisions on populations.
Some populations of boreal caribou are declining, some are stable, and some are increasing. But generally, boreal caribou across Canada exhibit declining trends. In Alberta that's true of most of the herds. It becomes a question of how governments want to deal with boreal caribou nationally.
This is where recovery planning and socio-economics at the recovery planning and action plan stages are important. Then you can make decisions within Alberta, Manitoba, or Ontario on how you are going to deal with populations that are stable or declining. For a species like caribou, which is a provincial species, those decisions need to be made there. Definitely there are trade-offs to be made, and I suggest that those trade-offs occur throughout SARA.