Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
My thanks to all of the witnesses for their time and attendance here today.
I will preface my remarks briefly by saying that in the last Parliament I was a member of this committee and we spent many meetings and listened to many witnesses in the study and review of the Species at Risk Act. I take very, very strong exception to the notion that the act does not need reform. In point of fact, the architecture of that act, the structure of it, often impedes the protection of species at risk—in my opinion anyway, having listened to all of those witnesses. But unfortunately, that's not the subject I want to deal with today.
I do want to ask Mr. Davidson about the concept you raised of no further net loss in habitat, which I haven't thought about very much before. First of all, I want to ask for a distinction, if it exists. Are you speaking only of critical habitat, or are you speaking of habitat generally?