Madam Chair, I would say that we're fortunate in Canada for two reasons. First, if you look at the national park system plan, it is a science-based plan and approach to identifying candidate areas. Ecological integrity, for example, is one of the key components of identifying the potential lands for national parks as part of the national policy.
I would say that equally important is that as part of the land claim agreement process or land claim negotiation process, indigenous people get to identify the lands that are important for their cultural values. Often, the vast majority of those lands are also the critical lands for conservation purposes.
That's why I was proposing an indigenous cultural lands program, because I think that with the two key components as anchors in Canada, supported equally by land trusts—for example, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, which is focusing also on some of the key areas—we will meet not only of the quantity but also the quality of lands that we need to achieve our conservation objective. It will never be perfect, but I think then the next step is really how we link those. How do we ensure the linkage, creating a network, so we don't only have islands of protected areas?