Yes, I understand.
When it comes to prioritizing the technical stuff, I am a person who has spent two decades getting his feet wet, walking streams, and helping community-based groups—these NGOs such as ASF, TU, and right down to the watershed organizations that have adopted their watershed and have taken it upon themselves to try to restore and protect their backyard. These are the landowners in the watershed. These are the folks who are picking up the pieces as governments—and not only federal governments but also provincial governments—roll back their budgets.
These groups, in my mind, are going to be the delivery mechanisms for the conservation programs in the future. It makes reasonably good sense, because they are the landowners. We think they would be more effective at delivering programs, because they are local, as opposed to DFO driving in with a 9-millimetre strapped to the hip. It's always easier to have a community leader approach landowners in the community to make, perhaps, changes with land use.
But these groups are lacking technical expertise. The more we study these ecosystems and watersheds, the more complicated it is. We need people, such as hydrologists or geomorphologists, to go in, do assessments, and determine what needs to be done in the backyards of these watersheds and to provide that expertise to the community groups.