This problem of multiple fires at the same time causing a crisis is not limited to Quebec: We are finding it in provinces across the country. We know that wildfires and extreme wildfires are overwhelming our suppression capability and exceeding all modern technology. This is a global problem, which is why we are also advocating proactive and transformative forest management to ensure that our landscapes and communities will be resilient to future fires through fuels mitigation and prescribed and cultural burns concentrated around communities, but also expanding onto the landscape.
The forest industry and forest management have the greatest impact on our landscapes across Canada. It is critical that our forest management be transformed in a way that ensures that we have resilient ecosystems into the future, which involves diversifying our silviculture and harvesting practices and the trees that we replant, and also modifying the way that we allow fire to interact with those forests.