Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned. It is June 3, and we have never seen raging wildfires this early in June, especially in the Prairies. I think about my Uncle Keith, who has respiratory illness and lives in Manitoba. The fires are a challenge to people's health, not just the evacuees but people right across the Prairies.
I am more concerned about the urgency and about getting organized. We know there are over 100,000 volunteer firefighters in local departments across the country, some of whom could be deployed to help in wildfire season, especially now, but there is still no national fire administration to help coordinate this, something the Canadian Association of Fire Chiefs has requested for a long time. We are the only G7 country without one.
Does my colleague agree that it is time the federal government established a national fire administration to coordinate things, especially this fire season?