Mr. Speaker, the member has talked a lot about climate change, its effects and the impact it has, but there are a couple of things that the budget does not talk about and does not deal with, and I was hoping the member would have addressed it in his speech.
There have been 30 sawmill closures in the province of B.C. There have been multiple sawmill closures in Quebec. We have seen a decimation of the forestry industry, yet there is no recognition by the government of those mills and those workers. Without them, the rebuild strategy is basically non-existent. If we look at what happened in Jasper and the town burning down, the department knew that there was a disaster about to happen, yet it did nothing about it. It did nothing to actively manage the forest to make sure there were protections, yet there is nothing in the budget addressing that.
How does the member opposite square that with his speech around the effects of climate change when the government knows there are steps it can take and it refuses to do it?