Richard Cannings at the Natural Resources Committee

On December 7th, 2020. See this statement in context.

December 7th, 2020 / 12:45 p.m.

NDP

Richard Cannings NDP South Okanagan—West Kootenay, BC

I'll go back to Ms. Nicholls again, as usual.

Several people have mentioned the increasing catastrophic fires we've been having. We had a report in 2004 in British Columbia, the Filmon report on wildfires, and how we should be addressing FireSmarting around communities.

We also have issues around access to fibre in British Columbia.

I have two questions. One, how is British Columbia progressing on meeting the asks of the Filmon report in terms of FireSmarting communities?

Two, could you let us know what the forest service is doing about adapting harvest plans so we have a more resilient forest that is less likely to be hit by catastrophic fires?

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