Mr. Speaker, I am sorry my friend from Fort McMurray feels that way.
I have not had any speeches tonight until now, and in asking questions, what I have said tonight is that our thoughts are with the people running for their lives. The hon. member may have missed it, but I have been through this with my family in B.C. We have been through floods where friends disappeared down the river in their home, and their bodies were never found. We have been through forest fires and on fire alert for evacuation, when we did not know where we were going to go when the word came through that we would have to go.
There are things we need to do for emergency preparedness, and we are not prepared in this place right now to talk about what we need to do as a country, to work together to save lives, when it is right in front of us that people are running for their lives. Yes, it is traumatic. People do not get over it overnight. Their kids do not get over it. They get nightmares for a long time, and maybe people do not get to go back to work for a very long time after having heat stroke in a heat dome.
