Thank you, Mr. Chair. Over the past number of months after the 2014 fire season we’ve been doing a lot of assessing of some of the challenges that we faced in 2014. Some of it is doable, no doubt to make some changes going forward for this season, but most of it, because of the business planning processes, we will have to come in with the next cycle in some of the areas where we’re challenged with fiscal resources, et cetera. But as I mentioned yesterday, we did an internal review shortly after the season and it landed on half a dozen themes that we felt needed a closer look at. Over the last short while here continuing over into the end of this month we are doing, of course, the public engagement in the regional centres, and some of the things, again, we’re hearing is aligning with some of the themes that we looked at internally. We are going to be working back from the end of March with a report that will hopefully address those challenges that we faced and just identify some of the items that we looked at internally and some of the stuff that we’re hearing from the community engagement.
Of course, we’re looking at the safety aspect. We recognize we need a safety management plan on reporting and tracking of incidents, et cetera. The work, the rest, the guidelines, we need to have proper procedures in place. Some of the human resource challenges that we were faced with, some of the financial challenges and practices, some of the stakeholder engagement and communications. We absolutely have to look and review our Wildland Fire Protection Policy. Although we do recognize it is a sound policy, we will look at that as well and, of course, the overall operations of the fire programs looked at.
The public feedback we’re hearing, and I had mentioned some of the stuff, is aligning. It’s in relation to improved communications before, during and post-fire events, emergency response, planning, working with other departments, governments in that area, the values at risk on the landscape approaches to protecting values at risk, the human and financial resource allocation again, and of course the big part on communication, educating all the homeowners on fire smart practices, et cetera. Thank you, Mr. Chair.