Just a short comment. Since this is our first process convention and it's with Bill 74 with both our government and Indigenous groups, I too want to thank all those that participated. I think it's a first step in ensuring that we hear from the people that are keepers of the land.
I also want to know -- I also want to say that we all know that this was a bad forest fire season, a terrible one. I mean, I was -- some of us were away five weeks for evacuation. We know that there's going to be a What We Heard report, hopefully. I just want to ensure that when we do that, there is public consultation because, you know, after the Fort McMurray fires, there was -- there was a report done but without public consultation. So I want to ensure that, for the record, that we have public consultation, that everybody who wants to see change or wants to have a change in policy, that they are able to attend a public meeting in most of the communities. You know, it was an eye-opener for a lot. People have been predicting this for years, and other leaderships have been predicting that this was going to happen. And it happened. And it was a perfect storm. There's still no rain hardly anywhere. It's very dry. There's drought. And in closing, I want to make sure that we do public consultations, and we listen to what the experts tell us, especially the experts of the land, and that's the Indigenous people.
And I want to also thank all the people who participated in this report, and because it's our first process convention bill I think it's extremely important that we congratulate the people that sat at the table and tried to mediate through these really different and difficult decisions that were put in this bill. Thank you, Madam Chair.