It's interesting because we at Nature Canada are looking at a new strategy for the coming five to ten years, but when we look across the landscape what we don't see is this coming together of the naturalist organizations involved in various aspects of environment and nature conservation. In my humble opinion there is a need for something like the CEN. It did provide a valuable service to Canadians. It was a place where people could talk about those seminal issues in environment and nature conservation.
On April 16th, 2013. See this statement in context.