Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I want to thank all our witnesses today. The testimony has been very compelling, hearing about the challenges of escape roads, wildfires and the loss of homes and cabins, floods, food security, a biomass project and fuel management within the forest. The reason I list those things is that they're all things that I have personally experienced in my own riding in northern Saskatchewan, but I'm hearing about them from northern Ontario, northern B.C. and northern Quebec. The witnesses' testimony is really appreciated.
Ms. Lipscombe, I want to drill in a little further to some of your comments. You talked about evacuations around fires last year, water and floods this year, and some of the work that you've been doing. I looked on your website, and you talk about training 25 evacuation support specialists. I'm really curious about what role they play, and it might have been in some of your answer to my colleague's question just a minute ago, but I want to drill into that just a little bit. I want to understand the role they play, how you got to that place and how they help you in responding to disasters in your communities over such a vast territory that you serve.