Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister pretends that we can put out forest fires with taxes. Clearly, that has not worked.
Rather, the Prime Minister should have listened to his own officials, who had said that the mass buildup of fuel in the Jasper valley as a result of dead trees needed to be addressed through controlled burns and other clearing methods. This would be preparation so that we would have the ability to fight the fire if and when it ever started. All of this is documented in email correspondence and, now, testimony at a parliamentary committee.
Instead of taxing Canadians into poverty, why did he not fight forest fires?