Mr. Speaker, the Department of Natural Resources announced on Thursday that we are facing another bad summer for wildfires. However, that is not apparent from listening to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. Two days earlier, he was at an energy trade show in Calgary, calling the oil sands one of the great industrial achievements in Canadian history.
He was boasting about speeding up oil and gas exports at the very same time as his own department was warning that our regions are going to burn.
Do the Liberals not think that the safety of forested regions should come before oil sands profits?