You talk a lot about local management. I would say that the city of Laval is one community or region, but when you add the population of Montérégie, Montreal, Laval, Laurentides and Lanaudière, you realize that 80% to 85% of the population lives in that geographic area. That is where you find the largest networks of farmlands in Quebec. The greatest wealth of biodiversity is in southern Quebec. The same is true of southern Ontario—which I know well—the southern Prairies, where I have been many times, and all of southern Canada. That is where the greatest wealth is. The high north has an endless number of large peat bogs and there are wetlands, but they are not necessarily threatened at this time. The only threat that weighs on northern wetlands is that of climate change. We are talking about permafrost, soils that are permanently frozen, but if they thaw, there will be methane emissions and they will accelerate global warming. How far will it go? That is the question.
On May 23rd, 2013. See this statement in context.