Yes. Thank you for that, Mr. Hehr. It's man îcosak. I really appreciate the attempt at our language. It shows great respect for this experiment we call Canada.
So the man îcosak and the different forcings that we've noticed.... We have stories of different insect families overwhelming the landscape at different times. And everyone here knows, I think, the biblical stuff on that as well. It's not just here on Turtle Island; it's also in Africa and in Europe where you have the plagues of locusts. These are big, human, epic-changing events that can happen from the little ones if you don't respect the natural environment.
With climate change, we aren't facing the cold that we used to have in Canada quite as much. I'm in my early forties now. When I was a child, we had weeks of minus 40°C weather. Toronto barely had snow last year. You have these wild variations, but in general, we know it's gotten warmer in Canada. The children don't have to shovel as much, notwithstanding here in Ottawa when we get the northern Golden Horseshoe effect. But in general, Canadians aren't shovelling.
When you get a warming environment, bugs survive in the bush a bit more. That's something for people to reflect on. That's what we're noticing in the regions and in the indigenous forest. All the elders are saying that the insect life, the bug life is changing. It's unbalanced. A lot of it has to do with our winters not coming in and killing off the larval stages of insects.