We have operated an indigenous knowledge collection program for over five years. It has developed in iteration a few times. Essentially, including indigenous knowledge in some of these processes is a challenge, because it's not collected in a way that's representative of the information. In order to produce indigenous knowledge that could be included in some of these processes, it really needs to come from the nation level, making sure the final product is reflective of what's actually there. In order to do that, you need to go to the communities and knowledge holders in order to truly understand where they come from and how to use the information in a respectful and good way, and for it not to get misconstrued or misunderstood in other processes. That's something we've been doing for five years or so.
Now, the challenge is, once we have this database available and collected, where is DFO going to use that? What I have seen of the CSAS process is that there's no real way for the process to include it. It's definitely something that CSAS could look at improving and taking into much greater consideration, moving forward.