Julian Morse

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I appreciate that commitment from the Minister, and I think that this is certainly something we could discuss at committee as well. And I don't think I have a follow-up question. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, sorry.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, my questions are for the Minister of Environment and Climate Change. Mr. Speaker, just following from my statement, has the Minister considered developing a priority list for actioning outstanding environmental audit recommendations? Thank you.

It sounds to me like we don't have -- or how do I put it. So the expectation is there won't be any additional staffing needed, there won't be any additional resources needed to operate this facility based on what we know right now?

Okay, thank you. And that's really what I meant was not so much that the department would be setting priorities on behalf of communities, but the department would be setting priorities for itself on where it's going to, you know, put its resources in terms of helping communities.

And my next question was going to be if there's any communities that are currently at risk of their funding lapsing. And it sounds like we got some time, so I take some comfort there. And those are all my questions for now, Mr. Chair. Thank you.

That's it. Thank you, Madam Chair.

Thank you, Madam Chair. And, yeah, the Minister dovetailed perfectly into -- or segued, I guess, into my next question which was going to be what are we doing about this problem. So resiliency study, I'm glad to hear that we're taking some action. I'm assuming that the -- is the resiliency study -- the purpose of the study, of course, I'm hoping is going to be to develop recommendations for how to make the system more resilient. It seems to be implied in the name, but I just want to confirm.

Okay, thank you. That's a fairly simple answer. Can the Minister help us understand the need for this additional funding, why it came about, and just the basis for it. Thanks.

Sorry, I'm done.

Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, just noting the shortfall in fire suppression activities. I guess the question I would ask, and I have some comments about it, is just the idea that this was a shortfall, and this wasn't predictable. I think that we are beyond the point where additional resources towards wildfire management are any kind of a surprise or outside of what's normal. It's been a couple of seasons, and I think that this is ongoing, and we just simply need to be budgeting for these activities considering that we're going to be seeing increased wildfire activity for the foreseeable...

Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm certainly very happy to hear that and very supportive of the Minister and department's efforts on that front. We certainly need it here.

Bjust noting that I'm starting to run out of time, I wanted to move to a different issue, and I do hope some of my colleagues take up the flag on some of the questions I'm leaving on the table with regards to housing money. But I wanted to speak about an issue that's been concerning me. We did ask about this in lead-up to budget. But I'm concerned about the department's capacity to bring all this to fruition. So I'm curious are...