If we hadn't done all that work to create the buffer zone around the town, the repercussions would have been far more significant. When I say “we”, I'm talking about Parks Canada, the Municipality of Jasper, the Alberta government and Indigenous peoples.
It's important to understand that Jasper is one of the best equipped towns to deal with this. I know it's hard for the Conservative Party to admit it, but we're facing extreme weather events that we've never seen before, whether it's forest fires, floods or tropical storms—