If all you're trying to do is reach a number, I think you've failed. If the species are still going downhill—you have species that are actually going to disappear from Canada within years, not decades—that's a big problem. You can fool yourself with any number of numbers, even the ones IUCN uses, if we're not actually doing the right thing on the landscape. I think it's a very complicated topic, and we need to be doing a better job of it.
On May 7th, 2013. See this statement in context.