Are you sure I can go on before anyone else interjects? Okay, I'll try.
I was talking about forest management. We were saying how the mountain pine beetle had a devastating effect on the amount of fuel that was sitting there. That's what really caused Jasper to burn—the high, intense flames. It was miles outside of town, and once it got to that intense fire, there was nothing stopping it. Absolutely, they are right. I am not disputing that.
The point, though, is this: If we had done better forest management in close proximity to the townsite—I'm talking about five or six miles away—to clear out a lot of that deadfall, there wouldn't have been that continual fuel, always coming with that same mass of fire. That's where our problem lies. We didn't do a better job of forest management.
Yes, let's not deny that it was dry, or that it was a hot summer. What are we doing to minimize that? All I'm hearing is, “Well, you can't do much because that's just climate change. That's it. There's nothing else.” Well, that's poor management, as far as I am concerned. That's all it comes down to, just stating a quote or putting a little tweet out there. That is not proper fire management.
Is Mr. van Koeverden making another point of order, or is he just rambling there?