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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
If you cut a budget, and the first to go is the organizational aspect that makes sure that we are prepared to move quickly, with adequate resources, on a problem, then that is on the heads of the people who did the cutting.
Also, it's been years of wildfires, and before that, years of BC wildfires. You could literally see this kind of thing happening miles away. And we had Slave Lake, and Fort Mac, and we gave away a massive stretch of cutting rights to Fraser, without insisting on firebreaks being a priority to access those rights, under the direction of the provincial wildfire unit.
I'm sorry, but an inquiry is not necessary. If you do one, it's to lay charges for wanton neglect of service. Is that a thing?
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I do not ever defend her, so I want to make that clear. What you are assuming is the cuts had any impact on the outcome here. I’m saying that I can’t make that leap, it may be true and it may not, but we need to find out.
You are correct, we have years of this, and yet we are not adapting. We need to figure this out for real. Canmore, Banff, and many other communities are in line. We need to get serious about this, at all levels of government. One of these days people are going to die.
Pointing fingers at the next level of government and trying to score points and find gotcha moments just pushes the learning out to after the next tragedy.