In the urban setting, water quantity and quality is a big issue from the drainage from heavily urbanized impervious areas that feed the park in particular, and all urban areas, for that matter. Protecting the upland forested areas that connect to the protected riparian areas, as I said in my presentation, is lacking. Consequently, when you move out of the park system—Bear Creek Park being a bit of an exception, because it is a big large park in a urban section—the connectivity is fragmented beyond that.
Bear Creek, for instance, has a fairly good corridor, but once you move on, there's fragmentation all across the municipality. The City of Surrey is doing a biological diversity strategy to try to connect those dots again, but therein lies the problem, because we don't have the resources to start working through a connection on urban and private land.
When we come down to the very localized urban setting, unlike our Rouge Park counterparts who are talking about 100 square kilometres of national urban park, we're talking urban park settings in heavily urbanized areas. For that reason, and for all the same reasons, but on a smaller scale, I think we need to have those kinds of strategies in place to help protect those parks. The federal department can certainly help with that.