I agree with your assessment. The bottom line, as you say, is that at some point in time, they're going to have to take a triage approach to this whole issue. Say, for example, they looked at Atlantic cod and broke it into four or five different subcomponents. It is a fundamental problem with the implementation of this act. COSEWIC has a certain amount of money. At some point, they're going to have to take a triage approach so that they can in fact get on with those species in which a certain size of population is in difficulty.
On April 15th, 2010. See this statement in context.