Mr. Speaker, I want to refer to the speech by my colleague, the member for Parkland. He talked about the importance of doing proper forest management and how that could greatly reduce the impact of forest fires.
I have been a member of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources for the last several years. We studied forest fires during the pine beetle forest study that was conducted. We listened to many indigenous leaders who said that they had a practice of forest management that was not being practised anymore and that if we would do that, with controlled burns and proper management of the deadfall in forests, we would not be facing these out-of-control fires in many regions.
Indigenous people have knowledge they can share with us, and the natural resource people need to listen to it and do proper forest management. Of course, the government also has to pay for that to happen.