In my experience, first nations seem to have been left out of the biodiversity train, if you wish. They have a very strong interest in protecting it, but quite often their interests are superseded by external economic interests. We need a way of, again, providing support to those communities getting larger areas free of industrial developmentābecause quite often they're very compatible with our area-sensitive species like caribou. I'm not sure how much the federal government can do, certainly in the provincial areas.
But, for example, in the caribou recovery, we've set an important goal to reach at least 65% of undisturbed habitat for each caribou population. If the government would work with the provinces and the first nations to enforce that standard, if you wish, or goal, then we'd start reversing the decline in caribou. That's a specific example that I think can be started and worked on right away, and it is consistent with existing government targets.