Minister, I'll have to cut you off because I've given you some time there.
What needs to be done is that we need to start clearing these trees and we need to take action to prevent the fires from hitting Jasper and other towns in the Rocky Mountain national parks and our other national parks that are at risk.
I'll move on to my next question, Minister.
From the way you're speaking here at the committee, I think it would be more appropriate if your ministry was the ministry of emergency response, because I'm not seeing a lot of preparedness from your government.
What role did you take in the years and the months leading up to this Jasper fire to prepare Jasper and other towns and national parks, which are under federal jurisdiction, for the threat of wildfires? As Minister of Emergency Preparedness, what did you do?