I agree with everything he just said, strategically. I think this is the most important part of the act. We thought about the options, and I don't think you can legislate that they must do a certain number, because then you just get back-of-the-envelope ones to meet the number. It's hard to do criteria and the reason is that, as you know Ms. Duncan, many of these regional assessments end up putting prescriptions in place for areas that are mainly within provincial jurisdiction. If you were to do an assessment of woodland caribou or the prairie ecosystem, the federal government couldn't unilaterally come in and give you a recommendation for how you should manage the tallgrass prairies.
One of the realities of this is that these will work best, other than in a federal jurisdiction like marine, when they work co-operatively with provinces, and you can't legislate that. The reality is that you have to encourage that as many be done as possible. That's why the recommendations I put forward are the best I can think of. One of these is that you have a list of what they identify as priorities, assuming there's been some negotiation with provinces. Another is that the advisory council will do its recommendations for the criteria and priorities. At the end of the day, however, a lot of this is going to depend on which provinces are willing to dance with the federal government on this stuff.