Natural Resources committee  Just quickly, when I say “planning”, at the national level we work internally with all the federal partners to really think about what is going to be the next fire season and how we can get prepared and pre-position some assets with different partners. I am not doing the planni

Natural Resources committee  When it comes to that question I will confess that this is outside my level of comfort. To be totally honest, I don't have the expertise to be pointing in that direction. We have colleagues over in Natural Resources Canada and other federal organizations who actually would be bet

Natural Resources committee  Thank you very much. I'm very pleased to be here. When it comes to emergency management, the federal government is responsible at the national level and on lands and properties under federal responsibility. Provincial and territorial governments exercise responsibility for emerg