Minister, I think you're avoiding the question here.
I understand that Alberta Emergency Management and the town may have done everything they could have done in terms of FireSmart and in terms of positioning emergency response equipment to react to a fire once it happened, but I'm asking about what happened before that, in the years before the fire started, in the years since 2017, when Ken Hodges and other scientists warned your government that not taking action on mechanical clearing and prescribed burns to protect the Town of Jasper was setting up the Town of Jasper for a catastrophe.
Knowing what you know now, Minister, and with your extensive experience, will you say whether or not it was a mistake for Parks Canada not to more extensively clear the forest and use prescribed burns to protect the Town of Jasper?