Mr. Speaker, I would like to update the House with respect to the situation right now in the country.
While the forest fire season got off to a slow start, unfortunately we are now seeing the destruction of many thousands of hectares of Canada's forests in the western part of the country. For example, in British Columbia 112 fires are burning; in Alberta, 24 fires; in Saskatchewan, 54; and in Manitoba, 27.
Very briefly let me say again that what we are doing at the federal level-