Last week, I asked that the Parks Canada staff here relay this committee's collective sympathy and gratitude for all of the work that they did. Indeed, the work that was a collaboration between all of these various groups saved lives. I don't think I have to ask for unanimous consent in this committee, but I hope that you could express the same to your colleagues and staff. What happened this summer was a tragedy, but the preparatory work undertaken by Parks Canada, by your colleagues and by the ministers as well saved lives. Collectively, we'd like to thank you for that.
Mr. Gault, we've heard some conflicting reports regarding how well various levels of government and jurisdictions collaborated. We've also heard conflicting reports with respect to funding for wildfires in the province of Alberta.
Could you highlight for us, from the perspective of the employment of firefighters and teams of first responders, what we could all be doing better to ensure better-resourced personnel when it comes to both avoiding these disasters and responding to them?