Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses for being here and sharing your expertise with us.
I'd like to follow up with my colleague from Alberta, Heather Sweet, just to ask a few questions.
You were just answering my colleague Mr. Trudel's questions about what Albertans care about. I would just put out there that I think probably Albertans care very little about chemtrails and Uber-style health care, but that is another thing that this provincial government seems to be obsessed with.
Ms. Sweet, I'm curious as to your thoughts as the forestry critic. In your testimony, you talked about the economic strategy and that we need to help those in Jasper recover, so I am wondering if you could talk a little bit more about that.
One thing that we know is a reality is that there are so many members in Jasper who work in the tourism industry, as you indicated. We know that many of them weren't eligible for EI. It's a very difficult thing because, of course, they would have had jobs and they would have been able to continue to make a living, but that opportunity was taken away from them by the fire.
We've reached out to the government to have them change the EI rules. We have not heard yet whether or not they would be willing to do that. We've not heard back from the minister on that issue.
Could you talk about what an economic strategy would look like from your perspective? What more would you like to see the federal government do for the people of Jasper?