It may be small comfort, but I can report some updating on those numbers, which are largely in the same range. We have 264 strategies proposed. We need 246. That's a little bit better than the numbers you quoted. We understand that we have a backlog with SARA, and we're doing the best we can within our resources to address it on a priority basis. The minister mentioned the caribou recovery strategy. We're quite glad to have got that out, but there are many others that we need to do.
What we're doing is a two-track approach. One is trying to eliminate the backlog as quickly as we can. We've made some good progress during the last number of years in the number of recovery strategies that we have. If you compared this with the five previous years, we're doing better, but we need to do better still.
The second thing that we're looking at is things we could do in the way of implementation or legislative or regulatory change. As the minister said, there's a full range of options that we as officials are looking at to work within the existing legislative framework and do it better. There are people out there who say that the law is pretty much fine; we just need to find a better way to do it.