I have a question for Mr. Lounds of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, which does great work in my riding of Kootenay—Columbia. Nancy Newhouse has been very active. She is great. For two years I was manager of the East Kootenay conservation program, which coordinated the purchase of private land for conservation in the East Kootenays. There was a gap between the number of people who wanted to sell their land for conservation and the funding that was available, which might surprise a lot of people.
First, have you seen that gap across Canada, where there's more interest in selling private land for conservation than you have money to purchase it? Second, what more could the federal government do to help with that situation, if that is indeed the case?