If we're interested in having no net loss as a principle—and it is a principle, not a law—as part of the vision that Bill articulated, you have to have some sort of vision of where you're going or else you're not going to get there. I think it's clear that globally we can't go on the way we've been going.
I think that's the fundamental problem we have in this context, that there's a sense among many people in Canadian society, and perhaps in the government, that we can continue to do the things we've done before, that we can continue to increase the development of our fossil fuel industries, that we can continue to expand our cities, that we can do things as we have done them before. But from an ecological perspective, I think it's clear, given climate change science and the loss of biodiversity globally, that we can't keep on doing things the way we've been doing them.
So there's a real dilemma there.
