Do you want to go one by one?
I looked at that report a while ago. I think it's about eight years old or something. I would say one general thing about it. I think it was very valuable in terms of bringing a very important idea to the national conservation plan, which is the value of Canada's natural capital. I think it was the key sort of intellectual underpinning of the report.
As I recall, one of the most valuable things in it was that it got that idea in. That idea is sort of catching on now, but back in 2003 it was a concept that was just coming into the mainstream. The reason that's important is that implicit in the ideas behind a national conservation plan is a recognition of the incredible value of Canada's natural capital. It has value in and of itself, but it also has important economic value in the ecological goods and services that flow from it. You can see that in the Canadian boreal forest agreement, for example. It's a key underpinning principle.
Before we go recommendation by recommendation, there's an idea I wanted to give credence to, because I think it's a very important idea. You can see in a lot of the work that's been happening internationally and within Canada that the economic value of nature to our industry and to our way of life is now better understood. I think that's very positive.
In terms of conservation planning and the recommendation on the Mackenzie Valley, there's obviously been a tremendous, extensive environmental review of the Mackenzie Valley gas project since then. There has been a tremendous amount of work done on the part of the federal government.
I think the second part was on the boreal forests. There has been a significant advance through the Canadian boreal forest agreement. I would say that it is a landmark achievement. Twenty-one forest companies and nine environmental groups have come together to establish a vision for the value of Canada's boreal forests in terms of producing fibre, with jobs in sawmill towns across the country, and in terms of the broader ecological benefit of the boreal forest and all the benefits that flow from it, such as water purification, tourism, etc.
Interestingly enough, I would say that on that recommendation, you can see that there have been significant advances in both dimensions.