Obviously, there's a key component in effectively protecting fish habitat where education comes into play. Where it's going to be important and, I think, historically has been a challenge is to explain to people what is fish habitat is and what is harm to fish habitat. From a biological perspective, I think it's challenging to create a bright line between what is “natural” fish habitat and what is artificial fish habitat. For example, in an area like the Fraser Valley, where you traditionally have abundant fish habitat and then have developed that area to do a whole bunch of different activities—you have people living there, and you have farmers farming there—I don't think it would be useful to try to distinguish between what is “natural” and what is not natural.
I think it is important for us going forward to educate people as to what activities can harm fish habitat. It seems that this act does create a framework to develop those codes of practice for what you would consider to be, I suppose, activities. My understanding is that they will be used in the agricultural sector. Theoretically, that could be a very useful tool. Our comment is that if you're going to do that, if you're going to develop codes of practice for activities in agriculture or around municipalities, you need to think about the cumulative effects, the cumulative loss of fish habitat that you're enabling through codes of practice, and make sure that those impacts are compensated for in some way under the act.