The identification of critical habitat under the Species at Risk Act is a very cumbersome and hard process for government to get their minds around. It's easy to identify it in a park, a wildlife habitat, on DND land, or on something that's owned by the federal government. But I'll share a simple story with you. Inner Bay of Fundy Atlantic salmon recovery team members undertook this process to identify critical habitat in the marine environment. We had 30 to 40 scientific experts on salmon together in a room saying that the entire Bay of Fundy was critical habitat for the salmon, and they had volumes of information to prove it.
In the end, DFO was saying, no, we can't identify the entire Bay of Fundy as critical habitat. We're going to have to call it something else. We're going to have to call it important habitat or some other type of habitat. We do not want to identify the Bay of Fundy as critical habitat. We only want to identify a small portion.
But in a biological sense and an ecological sense for the salmon, it needs the entire bay.