The most important thing that can be said in answer to that is that we do face an emergency.
Almost all the indicators that we see over much of the country, from the British Columbian coast to Quebec, indicate not just drought but extremely dry conditions and vulnerability to wildfire. This is going to affect not just the sectors we normally think of. It's going to affect a wide range of economic sectors in very deleterious ways. There's no way that we can see at this moment that this is going to be alleviated by last-minute rainfalls or snowfalls.
Emergency preparedness as a nation is vital if we are to understand how we can save money and save lives this coming summer. It's a no-regret strategy because we know that as climate continues to warm, we're going to have to be prepared in those ways and to change the way we react to these emergencies.
Rather than reacting, we have to be able to prepare for them and understand what we have to change in order to become more—