Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Minister, for coming here.
I think the only thing I can agree with you on here is that they were brave and heroic firefighters who were fighting on the front lines. Once this fire started, I don't believe there was anything they could have done to have stopped it, just because of the intensity of this fire.
You've come in here, Minister, with quite a lot of bravado. You've talked about the great job your government has done and about how Jasper is the most prepared town for a fire, yet one-third of the town was allowed to burn down, with nearly a billion dollars' worth of damage, and 2,000 people are homeless.
Do you have any humility, Minister? Is there any admission that your government could have done more to prevent this fire from destroying one-third of the town? What could you have done, Minister?