Preface
A Wildlife Policy for Canada is a national policy, providing a framework for federal, provincial, territorial, and nongovernmental policies and programs that affect wildlife.
The policy builds on Guidelines for Wildlife Policy in Canada, which were formally approved at the Wildlife Ministers' Conference of September 1982.
The guidelines were to be evaluated and reviewed after five years. This was done at the 1988 Federal–Provincial/Territorial Wildlife Conference, which involved wide public participation, and produced many recommendations for revision. These recommendations were used by a task force¹ in drafting A Wildlife Policy for Canada.
Federal, provincial, and territorial governments, aboriginal organizations, wildlife professionals, nongovernmental organizations, and the general public have contributed to A Wildlife Policy for Canada. The document expresses the will of Canadians to conserve wildlife for its own sake and for the benefit of present and future generations of Canadians.
¹ Task force members: Robert Andrews, Tom Beck, Gary Blundell, Jean Cinq-Mars, Paul Gray, Paul Griss, Stephen Hazell, Anthony Keith (chair), David Neave, Robert Prescott-Allen, and Arthur Smith.
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