Just before you do, let me give an example of what I'm leading to, from my own riding. We have a small bird called the vesper sparrow. It's a nice evening songbird on the prairies. It's a grassland bird. It's common across North America. They're common from Louisiana all the way up to northern Alberta, but they're not common on the coast. We have a shortage of grasslands on the coast. But they have a subspecies of this common sparrow on Vancouver Island. It's only found in one place. There are five nesting species, possibly ten. They're not sure if they're counting the same ones. They want to declare a critical habitat at the Nanaimo Airport. The south end has a parking lot and they want to declare it as critical habitat for this very unusual species. It's a common species, but it is a subspecies that's on the coast.
Is it your understanding that the intention of the act was to capture small numbers of animals that are actually very common in North America?
