Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Minister of ECC. Is there a minimum or maximum distance a wildfire has to be from a community to be actioned by ECC? Thank you.
Thank you, Member from the Deh Cho. Minister of ECC.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I don't have a specific distance per se to this question. There are a number of factors that would play into the preplanning, if you will, of trigger points. So there's weather, there's wind, there's drought levels, there's moisture, duff moisture codes. There's a number of contributing factors that would be taken into account as they determine what those trigger points are, whether it's a recommendation for an evacuation alert or a notice or an actual evacuation. So those things will vary depending on the specific location. Like I said, the specific level of threat and the weather conditions at the time. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Is there a wildfire protocol or policy in place to ensure safety of residents when there's fire coming towards a community? Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the forest fire management policy is based on priorities with the number one priority being human life. And certainly as fires are detected on the landscape -- and I'll use 2025 as an example, we had about 201 fires. Of those 201 fires, 100 received some form of direct action. And of those, 80 of those incidents were close enough to communities to pose some level of threat, with 20 of those fires being close enough to pose a higher level of threat. So certainly the first priority, based on the policy and the information that is provided to our decision-makers, is to ensure that we're following that policy and that the number one most important thing is that we're looking out for human life first and then we look at values, etcetera, and it moves on from there. So, yes, Mr. Speaker, that is our priority. Thank you.
Thank you, Minister of ECC. Final supplementary.
Oral questions. Member from Yellowknife Centre.
