Okay. Thank you.
In June 2022, this department released a document called “Canadian Dialogue on Wildland Fire and Forest Resilience—What We Heard”. In there, there were a lot of comments. I'm just trying to get the quotes associated with this minister in relation to “Wildland Fire and Forest Resilience” and “Building Resilient Communities and Financial Instruments to support Wildland Fire Resilience”.
To our colleagues here from the department, it says in these estimates that Natural Resources Canada requested $1.7 million in contributions supporting wildland fire resilience, a decrease compared with $2 million in the 2022 main estimates and $2.3 million in expenditures in 2021, when we are currently seeing more than 60 wildfires that are active and burning across our province, and indeed Alberta, and are are seeing more and more of these massive natural events.
Why is this money decreasing, and can you tell me how hundreds of communities are going to share $1.7 million to make themselves more fire-resilient? It's unbelievable when this number continues to decrease.