Madam Speaker, it is absolutely astonishing that when the member gets up and shares the tabloid-style rhetoric she always does in the House, other Conservative members clap. It is also disgusting that the member would insinuate that our government, or any government, would encourage a park to burn intentionally, where a brave firefighter lost their life and thousands of Canadians lost their homes. That is disgusting.
Under the Conservative government from 2010 to 2015, there were no controlled burns. That government did no mechanical removals. It cut all funding for Jasper National Park by $30 million a year. That creates a hangover effect. The Conservative government did not have a mountain beetle strategy. We started that in 2016. We took action in Jasper National Park. We have been doing the mechanical clearing. We have been doing the controlled fire and burning. We have employed the Indigenous Leadership Initiative and the indigenous guardians program.
The members opposite who are on the environment committee know that, because they listened to the amazing people, like Dr. Amy Cardinal, who have been doing that work for over a decade. Those members opposite ought to be absolutely ashamed of themselves that they would insinuate any government would allow a park to burn. It is that kind of rhetoric that leads to the misinformation and disinformation that leads to Canadians feeling less confident about science and the science of climate change. Shame on that disgusting rhetoric.