Sorry, I'm not going to let this one -- mahsi, Madam la Presidente, I'm sorry, I'm not going to let this go without talking about it.

Just -- I think it's important to understand the context in which this recommendation was made. This was made before the evacuations took place in, you know, August when we were trying to conclude the review of the bill. But I think it's even more important today.

Now, on Friday, I asked a series of questions of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change, who wears the same hat as the Minister for Municipal and Community Affairs, about some kind of a comprehensive, independent, third party review of not just fire management, also emergency management, those two things. And I'd understood from what the Minister said that that would take place. This Cabinet is not going to be making those decisions. It's going to be made -- those decisions will be made by the next Assembly. And he assured me that the requests for proposal that was put out and closes, I think on October the 13th, that that is not this broader third party independent review. I'm not even convinced that the RFP meets the intent of this motion because I think the RFP that was put out is really an after-action review. It's a template. They do these at the end of every fire season.

I think what we were suggesting in this recommendation is something that actually looks at, you know, the fire prevention and fire suppression policy framework and practices because we heard a lot of concerns/complaints about that during the community hearings that we had and in written submissions as well. So I think this recommendation even goes beyond the RFP that's out there. But this is certainly not what I was talking with the Minister about on Friday, which is a much higher third party independent review of both fire management and community -- or sorry, emergency response, emergency management. So I just wanted to get all that on the record, Madam Chair.

I still believe that this work is necessary, but I think it's even more in-depth and probably the RFP is not going to even meet -- that's out there is going to meet the intention of recommendation 1 that we have on the floor now to consider. Thanks, Madam Chair.