You're right.
I think that this bill has been fairly carefully written so far and our amendments are trying to do the same thing, which is to ensure that the obligations under the act fall on the federal minister and do not fall on provinces. They don't really oblige provinces to do anything.
Given that the provinces have the substantial authority to legislate with respect to nature, it's imperative that the provinces, territories and indigenous governments get involved. It's essential that they assist in delivering on the targets that have been set nationally.
This is a much smaller bill than some are suggesting. This bill is really pretty limited to trying to figure out whether or not we're making progress on biodiversity.
Unfortunately, there's a long history in this country of governments dissembling and pretending that we're making progress by writing the reports in such a way as to appear that there is progress, when the science says that nature is in decline across the board.