Thank you, Mr. Chair. I will note the Member's concern and appreciate the concern. It is the same in every region within the boreal forest area. I just want to reassure the Member, when you look at the main estimates, the funding has not been cut back. It can, periodically on a yearly basis, be supplemented by a supplementary appropriation, depending on the fire season.

The other point that we have to keep in mind is that fires are considered a normal part of life and habitat management occurs naturally. We can't fight every fire. We do appreciate the issue of the range of the animals and such, but we have also tracked on maps fires that go back 40, 50 and 60 years so we can have a sense of what the landscape looks like so that there is new and old growth and middle-aged growth. Thank you, Mr. Chair.