One of our priority recommendations in this year's document is to provide ongoing management funding to protected areas. The next target and the next protected area are always very important, but we also need to properly provision the government departments and agencies that are in charge of managing and stewarding our existing protected areas.
Instead of making these departments and agencies reliant on three-year or five-year blocks of funding, we recommend building in permanent funding for ECCC, DFO and the Parks Canada Agency to manage and steward our protected areas.