Thank you.
Ms. Schwann, I just want to talk about COSEWIC. I have to take exception to your comments about COSEWIC being non-scientific. I was co-chair of COSEWIC for eight years, and I can assure you that I was very impressed during those eight years with how careful and scientific that organization is. If anybody wants to see COSEWIC in action—this is a committee on the status of endangered wildlife in Canada—they meet every year in the last week of November in Ottawa. They welcome observers, so please come.
Getting to caribou in particular, I don't know the science or data on caribou in Saskatchewan. I know that woodland caribou are collapsing in various parts of the country, that's why they were listed as threatened. I know that in Saskatchewan they've banned sport hunting because they are so concerned about populations.
If your organization were telling the government how to regulate the cumulative impacts on threatened species such as caribou, how would you do that? This is not just an iconic species—it's on our quarter—but it's a key species of the boreal forest. How would you assure all Canadians that those populations would be viable in the long term through regulation of cumulative impacts?