Thank you. I appreciate the question.
The region that I'm from, the southern interior of B.C., experienced a number of significant disasters in the last five years alone. I can tell you that, from the community level, we no longer talk about fire season. We talk about fire all year long because we know that a fire in the summer will lead to a washout in the fall. The cumulative effect of one disaster will last for an immeasurably long time.
Whether it's the highway being washed out in the summer during busy times or the smoke that prevents us from leaving, thus being landlocked in the southern interior, people live with this risk all the time. At Christmas parties, people will talk about whether or not the snowpack in the mountains is going to be enough to get us through the spring, and whether or not the high temperatures will make the snowpack melt faster, therefore creating a risk of flood, which creates risk of.... We have to change our focus to prevention because it really is, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”