Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, we even watered the gardens, and fed budgies and pets in the homes.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'd just like to say, what we'd like to see—our Shuswap communities, our collective communities—is resourcing so we could establish our own emergency preparedness plan and program where we could assist each other. We want to be able to keep our firefighters back in our territorie

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We got some really wild photos.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Secwepemctsin] Thank you for giving us the opportunity to tell you what suffering we went through. We have a larger story. Maybe one day we can tell it. Thank you.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I confronted that. We brought in the RCMP to help us give the evacuation order. When they tried to confront our people in that way, I told them to back off, to leave them alone, that we'd take care of the people, that we'd look after them, and we did. Those who decided to stay ba

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I'm sorry. Can you quickly rephrase your question just to be clear?

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  Yes, and thank you for that, but I want to say first that when the federal and provincial governments came out and immediately, while the smoke was still billowing in the air, gave $20 million to the cattlemen's association—and we have yet to get any money—we took this to mean th

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  We're now looking at setting up a cultural resources and management centre so that we can train our people in the use of fire as well as in the use of revegetation using our traditional plants. I gave the chair two books on that.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  I've been using fire, and I've been able to bring back two keystone species that were dormant for 100 years through the use of fire, which is a regenerator.

Indigenous and Northern Affairs committee  [Witness speaks in Secwepemctsin] Thank you for honouring me to do a presentation here. I am Chief Ron Ignace, from the Skeetchestn community, which is part of the Shuswap Nation. My fellow Shuswap chiefs were up on the screen there. I also want to recognize the owners of this