Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In recent years we have improved our response time and capability. This has been done mostly by working with community leaders in the smaller communities. We have done that by working with the chiefs. In fact, we have offered to all communities the responsibility, if they would accept it, for deciding within a prescribed area which fires they would respond to, in what you would call the initial response phase. They would have responsibility for something like up to $20,000 worth of effort in the initial effort. They either put it out or suppress it sufficiently to allow for a larger attack response to be formulated.
If a response is not meeting the satisfaction of the community leaders in that location, then we would be pleased to review it and see what could be done. Initially, I would say it would require that first of all, we share all the information we have on a daily basis. Secondly, we would have daily briefings with the community leaders on interpreting the information so they know exactly which fires are ongoing, which ones started overnight and which ones have been put out; what their locations are, the sizes, the weather conditions and if there are fires that require action, which ones should be actioned. So we are prepared to make that commitment, it is a standing commitment to all communities. Thank you.