Thank you very much.
Thank you to the minister and the officials for being here again.
At the last meeting we heard about the heroic efforts and the amount of coordination that was done. We also heard from Mr. Landon Shepherd, who was on the ground in Jasper.
You talked a lot about the collaboration and coordination. We heard about that last week as well. We also heard that the Alberta government had decided to reduce its firefighting budget by $30 million. Was that ever discussed, and did that have an impact? We heard that certain types of equipment that were there were not available. Was there ever a conversation about the need to keep increasing the budgets for firefighting, rather than decreasing them?