Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. friend, the parliamentary secretary, and I congratulate her on this new role.
This is the last place in the world we need partisanship. Everybody in this place will know that I have been talking about the threat of the climate crisis for about 40 years. I have watched it and had a front-row seat to failure after failure.
We need to avoid the worst of the climate crisis. The government's steps so far do not get us there, but we also need to be prepared to save lives now. I want to stress that we need to have a real, functioning working group of multi-party, multi-jurisdictional efforts in a national climate change task force that share lessons learned.
This includes lessons learned from areas like near Williams Lake and the heat dome. If people had gotten into a cold bath with ice, their lives would have been saved instead of waiting for an ambulance to take them to a hospital, but they were dead on arrival.
We know we need to do more and we need to learn from each other.