Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The department works with all the communities in the western arctic to develop priority zones. You have priority one, which is life and property and then priority two, that may be certain areas of maybe commercial property or commercial harvest lumber as well as some trap lines and trapping cabins. Then you have priority three, which is further away from the community. The department develops those priorities with the communities and work in consultation with the communities on what fires to fight and which not to fight. We can not fight them all, it would cost too much money. Just for the Member's information, prior to this Legislative Assembly four or five years ago, we spent up to $30 million a year on fighting fire. The dollars that are spent this year, are going to northern companies and northern people. I believe approximately $3 to
$4 million of those dollars requested are going directly into labour costs only. So there is a priority system and it is kept to strict controls and it just costs a lot of money to fight fire.
I think one quote one day was approximately $400,000 a day, when we were burning up.