Thank you.
Minister, in 2017 and in 2018, in multiple letters sent to your predecessor, Catherine McKenna, who was minister at the time, Ken Hodges and Emile Begin, forestry scientists, warned your government that Parks Canada was not capable of preventing this fire and that the actions they had taken to date were not capable of preventing these fires. They said it was a matter of when, not if.
Why did Parks Canada fail to take the actions necessary to prevent this devastating wildfire?