Right now, we're seeing basically a waterfall approach to designation of different species that are either endangered or threatened. As soon as something becomes threatened and listed, a recovery strategy is required that talks about what activities might be permissible. However, the problem is a number of these species have competing habitat requirements. For example, in Saskatchewan, cariboo would require winter forests, but the olive-sided flycatcher doesn't like mature forests. Both are threatened and both have the same range, so what do you do? You can't do anything that satisfies both.
We need to look at the landscape as a whole. There is a project in southern Saskatchewan called South of the Divide, that the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Environment Canada are looking at, which would provide a more balanced landscape approach to provide protection to species across the board. I would refer to that approach.
Right now, there's no current mechanism in place to support a lot of this work.