Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I'm beginning to hear even in these last two sessions that any kind of plan we look at as a conservation plan must be comprehensive. We heard earlier on that it's important to have marine and land protected areas. Ecojustice Canada said that's not enough. In fact, you have to be strong and have very strong federal laws with regard to the EPA and SARA. We also heard that having lots of local groups doing protection and rehabilitation is important, and that there needs to be a way to support that as well as to look at private sector conservation.
We've heard that we need to look at a comprehensive and integrated strategy and that one size doesn't fit all in terms of the region. Ecojustice made the point that there needs to be a way of if not penalizing then at least making sure that industry that is harmful to the environment has to pay, so there is some way of ensuring that its harm is mitigated. I heard you sort of hinting at that. How would you see that happening? That is my first question, and it's for Ecojustice.
The second question to you is how we strengthen rather than weaken—which I believe we're currently doing—the national laws, and how we harmonize national and provincial laws. Are they harmonized or are they sort of working at odds with each other?
Those are the questions I wanted to ask Ecojustice.
I want to ask anybody else who wants to answer how they see us looking at supporting private sector conservation.