Thank you, Chair.
I'd like to move the following motion:
That the committee expand its study on the Jasper wildfire by four additional meetings to hear from forest management experts, stakeholders, Indigenous communities and impacted individuals, and the committee invite the ministerial lead for Jasper, Randy Boissonnault, to appear for no less than one hour.
Chair, over the last two weeks, this committee has investigated the factors that led to the Jasper wildfires. A third of Jasper burned, which resulted in nearly a billion dollars in damage, which is heartbreaking.
Since we started investigating this fire, the committee has heard extremely damning testimony that everyone should take seriously. Initially, we became aware of an email discussion among senior Parks Canada officials, which happened months before Jasper burned. In February of this year—