James Lunney at the Environment and Sustainable Development Committee

Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Thanks to all of our witnesses here. I want to pick up on a point raised by our CAPP representatives that we need more flexibility. Then I want to take it to our scientists. The concern we have at committee is about a prescriptive sort of one-size-fits-all approach versus something that allows some flexibility, because there's a wide diversity of issues we have to deal with.

My first question is for our witnesses from UBC. When it comes to protecting species at risk, do you support an ecosystem approach or a species-by-species approach?