Thank you, Madam Chair. I, too, I have a concern about what happened here, the fire here in the Northwest Territories. During the three and a half weeks in my riding, I listened to a lot of my elders, and the people in the community were talking about in the early days when fires happened they had a fire tower there. People were manned -- the towers manned by the RWED at the time.
And in those days, when they used to spot a fire, the guys would get on it right away. And they put out the fire. And they do it whether it would be three or four or five days, but they're on it; it's done, and it doesn't come back and haunt the community down the road. So, yes, there's overtime and so on that has to be looked at. But to me, this fire that just happened here in the Northwest Territories is significant. I don't know what to say about it because we never experienced this before. So, you know, this -- absolutely, I agree that we need to have a very comprehensive review of what happened here. And to undertake an independent third party review of what happened is needed. And, you know, we should really look at all those policies. They say that the fire's burning there. Well, then they should have been on it right away. But no, they -- and they said well, let it burn. No problem. We'll just monitor it. Well, you know, look what happened. So all that needs to happen. You know, I even would say that, you know, the firefighters that are now retired should actually be part of this policy review because they know the land. They're from our area. You know, they have the expertise. But right now, as it is, you know, this is something we got to learn from. But things -- we don't want to go down this road again.
And so I would say that, you know, this review is welcomed. And then I seen past reviews done, you know, internally, and it's like the RCMP investigating themselves. And we want -- we don't want that. You know, here we want to have an independent, and we just got to have clearer terms of reference and everything as to what the outcome should be. And so I'm going to support this motion because of that. Thank you, Madam Chair.