Environment committee  I think there are different options for meeting those targets. Some have had a lot of collaboration and a lot of talking and are ready for some action. For others, as you say, I don't know if the time frame to meet the target is sufficient to even get through the beginning of the discussion.

Environment committee  From our perspective, both those goals recognize the intrinsic value of wildlife and our natural areas, so they're aspirational. As somebody mentioned earlier, we need to set strong aspirational goals regardless of science; ethically, we want to be protecting wildlife and habitat.

Environment committee  This is where the federal government could, with the departments, lay out a framework—essentially a protected areas policy framework—specifying how these tools should work together. I don't believe how the tools should work together is clearly laid out, or which tools apply to which types of conservation goals or how the departments should use them.

Environment committee  There are some simple things that could be reinforced in the conservation plan. One would be a commitment to the emergency response network to marine mammal strandings and entanglements. That is run through the Department of Fisheries and Oceans with partners across the country, and it leverages some good dollars from organizations like ours and others.

Environment committee  That the government commit to enhancing and maintaining sufficient funding for the marine mammal emergency response programs across the country to respond to threats to marine mammals that are at risk. That would be one. The other aspect would be to make recommendations—although this has been worked on for years—to continue to encourage the Department of Fisheries and Oceans to look at ecosystem approaches to managing the fisheries, to considering multiple stocks at the same time, and to understanding the relationship between the species as they manage sections of the ocean.

Environment committee  Your question is around which monitoring programs...?