Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The issue of budgeting, first, for fires, we’ve had some modest increases to the base, and it’s come up a number of times. This particular year, last summer was very intensely dry, a lot of lightning, a lot of fires by significant values at risk, especially in the Deh Cho. The fact that we were competing for scarce resources, we had to bring in other crews, other planes.
As it pertains to the 215s, the Member is correct; the 215s are nearing the end of their best-before date and some would say they’ve passed that. We’re struggling to keep them in the air. Just with the access to avgas alone is a major problem. There is a significant fleet review, as I’ve indicated, that is currently being completed that will be making its way through the appropriate channels and on to the desk of the committee, to look at the challenges that we’re facing as it comes to decisions that are going to be required in the coming years. We still have an existing contract for air support services, both land-based and skimmers, that takes us to 2017, but we are hard at work to make sure we start the process and the reviews so that we are well along the way with key decisions being made in the life of this Assembly that will determine the path forward with regard to air support services for firefighting.