Merci, Madam Chair. Yeah, some of the rationale behind this recommendation, the committee went to a number of communities, including Whati, Enterprise, Fort Simpson, and we constantly heard concerns around the size of firebreaks, whether they were adequate. Also concerns around, you know, the adequacy of their fire prevention suppression capacity within communities. Some people in communities wanted to have, you know, a fire crew based in their community kind of on standby. There was concerns around, I guess, the -- and I don't know all the details, but I guess the training and certification of the folks that fight fires. Very, very high level, very rigorous, as it probably needs to be.
But as people get older, they're not able to meet those physical requirements but they still have a huge amount of experience in actually firefighting, and there doesn't seem to be a way to continue to engage and keep those people on somehow to help younger people. So those were some of the kind of concerns that we heard. And this set of recommendations arise in the report, they're kind of beyond the scope of the bill, but we felt it was important to document these concerns and try to find a way to address them. That's why they still appear in the report. They're outside of the -- perhaps the scope of the bill, but we heard these concerns, and we wanted to find a way to address them.
So one way we felt that some of these concerns could start to be issued is to make sure there's at least an annual meeting that takes place between departmental staff and the community leadership, relevant people in the community, about making sure the proper values at risk have been identified, any changes there, fire prevention suppression preparedness and how people work together.
Maybe these things happen already. If they have -- if they do, they're not being communicated very well to some of the people we were talking to who are actually in leadership positions. So, in any event, this is the reason why committee has made this recommendation, is to try to make sure that we work together to deal with fires better in the future, and I'm sure that's a shared value and objective by everyone in this House. Mahsi, Madam Chair.