Yes, thanks.
We believe that the large systems, as I talked about earlier—our ocean systems, the forest systems, the prairie wetlands, large river systems—that provide that core network of environmental function need to be protected on a much larger scale. We believe that in Canada we already have momentum on some of these things. We have a national marine protected area strategy. We have a national park strategy. We have momentum on these things, but progress has been very slow over the last 25 years.
I think the opportunity is there to escalate the work against some of our existing policies. We would like to see an outcome at the end of the day where we're not just maintaining remnant levels of species to say that we still have them, we're looking to a system that provides a robust opportunity to have viable populations, and particularly fisheries, which as we all know are very important to Canadians.
We have a choice. We have a choice to either recover and rebuild and maintain those fish stocks at larger levels, and marine protected areas are a big part of helping accommodate that. I think these strategies would reduce the risk going forward, knowing that we're seeing changes in precipitation and forest cover and all kinds of things. So accommodating these things is our core interest.