Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Similar to my colleague for Frame Lake, I too wish to speak about the report.
Transitional Solutions Inc., also known as TSI, was awarded the after-action report, not because they were friends with somebody, Mr. Speaker, not because they were a northern company and demanded a sole source, Mr. Speaker. They were hired because they were the absolute experts in their field.
Mr. Speaker, they are certainly way better than good. They are absolute experts in the areas of fire, master plan, industrial exercise, facilitation, organizational review, community risk assessment, fire delivery services. Mr. Speaker, the list keeps going on. But what's key here is I've read their reviews, and they're often defined as the gold standard of what they do, Mr. Speaker. So when the gold standard says things like the existing system, the territorial emergency management, proved ineffective during a large-scale disaster in their release, Mr. Speaker, that's a serious concern someone needs to pay attention to. Mr. Speaker, if anything, may I say it's a call to action.
Mr. Speaker, the problem is I've talked to people on the ground even this summer, experts in their field, and said it's not that people aren't trying hard, it's not that people around working hard. They need what's called ongoing leadership training and that relationship just as the report was pointing out, Mr. Speaker. TSI doesn't make these recommendations willy-nilly. These are important key ones to set the narrative and tone of how we manage these problems. So a dedicated emergency management agency needs to be done. But no, no, according to the Government of the Northwest Territories; it knows best. It says our population is too small, we don't have the money, we don't have the problem.
Mr. Speaker, look around. Fires are sooner, longer, laster. I'm going to quote Steve Austin: They're bigger, stronger, and faster, by goodness sake, Mr. Speaker. Times have changed. It's time this government hears the bell ringing before no one's left to ring it, Mr. Speaker.
Mr. Speaker, the government complains it's about money. Okay, I hear you. Give us a proposal. Ask us our opinions. I will give recommendations. I'll give a recommendation now, Mr. Speaker. We have the low hanging fruits of the $440,000 paid senior envoy position. I would say as a recommendation, if I was asked, there's a spot to start to hire a director to manage these problems. Mr. Speaker, I will have questions for the Minister of MACA about the analysis that the government did to come up with this glaring gap of service we should have risen to the occasion on. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Thank you, Member from Yellowknife Centre. Members' statements. Member from Inuvik Boot Lake.
