Mr. Speaker, I welcome my colleague from Kamloops to the House.
The pine beetle action fund that she mentioned took the government 18 months to properly figure out the application process. The government called it a crisis, yet dealt with it like it was not. For a year and a half, communities had stacked up idea after idea of economic development concepts that the government could properly fund almost instantaneously.
When the minister was questioned about this at the Union of British Columbia Municipalities, he said that he had no idea that this had taken place. He asked why communities did not go back and think about something on which they could possibly work.
Is the government committed to making announcements that are followed by the actions described in those announcements in some kind of considerably less order of time than—