Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  First of all, there's no doubt that voluntary stewardship can have a very positive effect. For both the Canadian Wildlife Federation and other conservation organizations I have been associated with, there's lots of evidence of that. The crux of the issue I think depends on how lo

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  Correct.

Environment committee  Yes.

Environment committee  James has all kinds of experience working in that area, and I think you'd be best served if he spoke on that.

Environment committee  You know, it's not something I've looked at recently in terms of best practices around large hydro development.

Environment committee  Our boreal project is in the planning stage right now. It has not yet been implemented. The work of it is just under way.

Environment committee  No, it's an ongoing process. One of our most important projects right now is a lake stewardship project in Ontario that is working with individual landowners on ways in which they can manage their property, providing incentives to them to manage their property and minimize impact

Environment committee  I'm sorry, you drifted off at the end there. I didn't hear the last bit of your question, but with regard to the long-term commitment, it is a hallmark of some of the most successful conservation programs, certainly in Canadian history and in most other countries around the world

Environment committee  One of the greatest difficulties in habitat conservation is that it's just very expensive. Land is expensive, and good land is even more expensive, because it tends to be in areas that are near water, which is recreational property. Good regional planning helps identify the most

Environment committee  There are net-gain systems in place that typically involve some kind of habitat banking system to make them work. We've looked at those a bit. There is lots of controversy around that habitat-banking approach. Some people are very much in favour of it; some less so. We're not co

Environment committee  Some of the things that have been said are right on point. The North American waterfowl management plan is a great example we can learn from, in that it could be applied in areas like freshwater aquatic habitats. I think there are some things specifically that government could d