I honestly have no answer for why the government hasn't. I don't know why the government hasn't addressed threats to date. It is disappointing, but I think with respect to what to do now—and I am heartened by the clear interest and commitment to addressing this issue at this point—we need to look with respect at, for example, the ocean noise. We need to ask ourselves if there is a threshold for safe functioning ecosystems in the Salish Sea.
We don't have any regulation of ocean noise in Canada right now. We need to have that regulation in place to be able to cumulatively manage. I think we need to regulate shipping in the short term, obviously, reduce the speed of vessels where we can, consider the kinds of measures that are being considered right now, like lateral displacement, but longer term we need to take a more comprehensive approach. We need to regulate ocean noise.
I'm certainly heartened to see that provision has been made in the recent omnibus bill that would enable that regulation to happen. Our concern is that, as I said earlier, it could take years to get to that place of formal regulation. In the interim, we need to use those powers of the Species at Risk Act to regulate ocean noise to the degree that we can, based on our existing knowledge right now.