What Andrew said is completely correct. It's a complicated country we live in. We have many different ecosystems, so we need many different tools. Many people in civil society have worked really hard to give us a variety of different tools to protect our natural ecosystems.
The Species at Risk Act is really for when the species is about to fall off the table, when it's almost too late. You really need to protect the habitat before that in our protected areas, and you have to properly manage the rest of the landscape and the seascape. You need a variety of tools. All together, I think they make a good package for protecting the ecosystem upon which we all depend. I wouldn't want to throw out the baby with the bathwater either. It is the act that protects the species just before it's about to go off the precipice. Absolutely, it's best to work behind that and protect the ecosystem.
Andrew and I are also both biologists--maybe Patrick is too.