Thank you very much, Chair.
Thank you to our witnesses for coming.
I heard something this morning that I really wasn't expecting to hear, but it really caught my attention.
Dr. Wagner, you talked about the institute for wildfire and about understanding and managing the effects of wildfires. I think that's so important. One of my children did graduate work on wildfires in Nova Scotia at Dalhousie University. When she started, she was told that no one else had done that before. This was a number of years ago.
To come back full circle, in two weeks' time, I'm putting on a session in my community. I come from Halifax West in Nova Scotia, all the way on the other coast, where we experienced terrible wildfires last year that have left hundreds of people devastated. Many homes were burned and many people were evacuated. A number of things happened, but luckily there were no fatalities.
I'm putting on an information session on emergency preparedness on April 25. Perhaps we should talk to you afterward to see what information we can get from you.
How do you collaborate or teach to solve problems? They're not just your provincial problems or those in your own territory or even Canada. They could be international issues. How do you collaborate? How can you get more researchers, get more funding and get more people knowledgeable so that you can garner much more funding? I'm happy to hear that you've received funding from Natural Resources Canada, but perhaps you can describe that process to us. What can we do as parliamentarians to aid you with that?