The program that Mr. Sopuck is referring to, the North American waterfowl management plan, started in 1986. To date in Canada we've invested about $2 billion in it—“we” being the partnership—securing about 8 million hectares of wetland and upland habitat, enhancing about 1.4 million hectares of habitat, and influencing producers with respect to another 46.4 million hectares of habitat—a staggering number.
The program is successful, I think, because it engages all the key partners in conservation, not just, if you will, the government agencies. We've worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Wildlife Service. We worked with provincial ministries, but we also work with Duck Unlimited and the Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporation. When you get down to on-the-ground delivery, those organizations are engaging with industry, and with the community-based conservation organizations as well, but industry is an important player. Clearly, with respect to waterfowl, as you just mentioned with respect to agriculture, the agriculture community is really critical and working with ag producers, whether it's farmers or ranchers, is dependent upon the trust that Mr. Puddister just referred to, building that longer-term relationship and enabling those longer-term agreements. But that's a public-private NGO partnership that's made that program successful.