Mr. Chair, what we experienced in British Columbia, and a lot of people in the rest of Canada may not know it, was the first really large economic impact from the climate crisis, which was the pine beetle outbreak that killed an area of lodgepole pine forest in the interior of B.C. equivalent to two times the size of Sweden. It happened because we lost the cold snaps in winter, when it used to hit -35°C, which was what limited the pine beetle spread.
Warming contributed to the dead forest that contributed to the fires, which contributed to economic losses and trauma for everyone concerned. They are connected issues, but as Trump increases his tariffs, we have to protect the communities that have already been through so very much with mill closures and damage from the climate crisis.