Mr. Speaker, the Jasper wildfire was started by lightning, and the people who live in Jasper underwent an incredibly difficult summer. To politicize this issue is unacceptable.
Arctic Fire, the organization that my colleague mentioned, is a private for-profit company under direct contract with Alberta Wildfire. It had no direct relationship with Parks Canada, but it did supply Alberta Wildfire with two trucks for four days, not 20 trucks and not 50 firefighters, as my colleague pointed out. Under the advisement of the Government of Alberta, they were released by unified command, not the federal government.