That money will support the department in taking on the development of recovery plans and assessing the very species identified by COSEWIC in order to provide advice to the minister to inform decisions around listing. In the case where a decision is made to not list a species, that money would also support the department in developing alternative-measure plans under the Fisheries Act. Those are things like rebuilding plans under our precautionary approach framework, and so on.
This funding really does support the overall administration of both the Species at Risk Act and the alternative measures that flow in cases in which decisions are made to not list a species under the act.