Thank you, Mr. Chair. There are a number of factors that we need to take into consideration when we are dealing with forest fires. We need to look at the location of a forest fire, where it has occurred. We need to look at what the fire is threatening and place what it is threatening on that values chain that we have. If it is threatening a high value such as human life or a community, then we will need to take whatever action we can on that particular event.

We also have to look at fire weather and consider how weather is affecting a particular fire and whether our actions are going to be effective or not, and, also, we need to consider costs that we may have to put against a particular fire so that we attempt to remain within the budgets that have been provided by the House for this particular activity.

Without cost being a factor, it is possible that, for fire suppression, we could run up a bill that would not be in good order and it might not be efficient spending from a fire suppression perspective.

With respect to our high values, we take aggressive action to make sure that communities are not adversely impacted by wildfire. Thank you, Mr. Chair.