Juno News - October 08, 2024
Feds DENIED firefighters access while Jasper burned
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Summary
In this episode, Rachel talks to Alberta Parks Minister Todd Lowen about the devastating wildfires that devastated the historic village of Jasper, Alberta in July of 2018. She also talks to a House of Commons committee hearing where a firefighter claims Parks Canada prevented him and his crew from entering the area to fight the fires.
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Canadians watched horrified this summer as wildfires attacked the historic village of Jasper.
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Many of us stood watching and wondering if more could have been done to protect the historic
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village. About one-third of the buildings burned down. I had a podcast at the time discussing what
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went wrong and maybe if Parks Canada, the federal agency responsible for protecting Jasper, could
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have done more in this instance. Many of us came to the conclusion that perhaps more controlled
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burns would have done the job to protect this historic village. We now know that there's been
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more failures than we could possibly imagine. This week at a House of Common Parliamentary
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Committee hearing, one firefighter, one contract firefighter told parliamentarians that he and
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his crew were prevented from entering Jasper to fight the fire during the wildfire crisis.
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Joining me today to discuss is Alberta Parks Minister Todd Lowen. I'm Rachel Parker and you're
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Hi Todd, thank you so much for being here today. Before we get into the heavy subject matter of
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Jasper and the wildfires and what all went wrong back in July, I just want to take a moment to
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acknowledge that you're in your truck in rural Alberta right now and that this is possible
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because of Elon Musk's Starlink. You said that's how you're connecting to us today. For my viewers who
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watch my show consistently, you know that I'm a pretty big Elon Musk fan. So this is just so awesome
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to me that you're able to connect to us from your vehicle and have perfectly clear and very good
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internet, it seems by all accounts. How often are you connecting out in remote places in your vehicle?
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All the time actually. You know, rural Alberta, the service with cell phones and everything is so
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intermittent that it's incredibly frustrating. A lot of waste of time when a person could be
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talking to people on the phone and then as far as getting actually internet connection when you're
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in rural Alberta is always tough too. So this has been a really real game changer for me to be able to
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to be able to do this. And again, I use it for calling. I use it for interviews like this and
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everything. It's very helpful. Yeah, that's awesome. I know you have a cabinet meeting a
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little bit later. So obviously, you know, you really rely on this. My husband and I have had
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our fair share of difficulties trying to connect out in rural Alberta. I think there's even been
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instances where I thought I wasn't going to be able to get my show in just because I didn't have
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strong enough internet. So I think we're going to be looking into Starlink pretty soon here. You've
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sort of sealed the deal for me. So that's awesome. Okay, I want to talk to you specifically about
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this House of Commons committee meeting that was just sort of one of the biggest scandals that's
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unfolding right now. Obviously, Canadians were shocked and horrified during the Jasper wildfires.
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Jasper is such a historic village. It's nearing dear to a lot of people's hearts and it's just such a
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beautiful part of Canada. And when those firefighters were going, I know the premier initially said that
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up to half the village would burn. And now we know that one third of the buildings burned.
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And you know, obviously, it's reopened, people can go back, but there's so much that has been lost.
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And I think there's just a frustration among Canadians that pay attention to these issues and
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really feel like more could have been done. This House of Commons parliamentary committee meeting
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really brought those fears to roost with Canadians hearing from a contract firefighter who said that
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he and his crew showed up to help the efforts in fighting the wildfires and were essentially given a
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very hard time by Parks Canada and told you're not allowed to be here. In some cases, they weren't
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even able to connect to water sources such as the Athabasca River. So I want to kind of dive into
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maybe what went wrong here. Let's start by playing this first initial clip. Here we can see a
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conservative MP questioning this firefighter. His name is Chris Levon. And Levon is explaining that
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his crew, you know, they're well trained and really all the resources that they came readily
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available with. Let's take a look at this first clip here. We're able to muster enough vehicles
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to provide water yourself as a contingency. You don't necessarily rely on being able to tie into
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a hydrant. Is that correct? That's correct. It's been my experience from previous fires that the
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hydrant systems cannot be deemed as reliable because they're only designed to have one or two
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structure fires at a time. So when you have numerous fire trucks tying in, it is not impossible for the
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water system to be completely depleted. So that's why we now use secondary water sources to supply
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water. And you had the fire trucks and the water trucks available in order to engage the fire in
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Jasper in the town site, correct? That's correct. And you were told specifically that you could not
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access and you were told specifically by parks officials to not engage in fighting the fire in
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Jasper. Do I hear you? Did I hear you say that correctly? We were able to use water from Pyramid Lake
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and not from Athanasca River. And we were not allowed to engage the fire.
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20 fire trucks, 50 firefighters, not allowed to engage the fire.
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Okay, Todd. So there you really get a picture of what is going on. There was 20 fire trucks,
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50 firefighters, and you hear Blaine Culkin sort of repeating that in disbelief and a conservative
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Alberta MP. Hearing those numbers, hearing that situation, what's your initial reaction
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to this information, Todd? You know, it's always frustrating when people are there to help and
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just because of the processes involved with the federal government and Parks Canada, you know,
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weren't able to. It's something we did battle in Alberta Wildfire too. And we've been able to break
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down a lot of those barriers and make sure that there's that ability. You know, we made sure that
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equipment could be approved quicker and put to work a lot quicker than what was done in the past.
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But, you know, Parks Canada hasn't got that system in place. This is probably,
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maybe somewhat a new experience for them, having a wildfire of this magnitude. When it comes to
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Alberta Wildfire, you know, we're dealing with hundreds of fires a year and Parks Canada deals
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with tens of fires a year. So even though they do have good people working for them, they just don't
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have the experience that Alberta Wildfire has. So in this instance, this individual, Chris,
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he works for a company called Arctic Fire Safety. They ended up releasing a letter later on saying,
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you know, a number of things broke down. They were essentially hired by resorts that were based in
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Jasper. And, you know, the letter outlines a bunch of the issues that they had that
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Parks Canada obstructed their activities, that they were told that they were not legally allowed to be
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there, that they were denied access to Athabasca River. So you're saying, you know, it sounds like
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this was really Parks Canada's first rodeo with something of this magnitude. Is that really the,
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is that the issue here that they were just not prepared to deal with a wildfire of this magnitude?
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Yeah, I think they, it's, it's fair to say that they, you know, I don't know any other time when
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a town in any of the national parks has burnt down like Jasper did. And, but when it comes to these,
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you know, these contractors coming in, like these, these hotels and these different,
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different places, they have contracts, their insurance company has, insurance companies have
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contracts with some of these firefighting crews to make sure that they can protect their,
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their assets themselves. And, and I, I would have thought that there would have been free access
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to, for these companies to go in. I know there was fire trucks going into Fort McMurray this spring
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when I, when the fire was approaching Fort McMurray. And those were some contracted, the firefighting
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trucks that were headed in there, contracted by, by different companies, different hotels and things
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like that to help battle the fire, to make sure that they could protect their, their own,
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their own assets there. And so this is something that it, that isn't uncommon. And so I was a little
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surprised that the, that there wasn't a system in place for this. So when you're saying that this is
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not entirely uncommon to have these contractors, if Alberta wildfires had been the one responding to
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the fire in Jasper, as they would in other parts of the province where it's not, you know, a federally
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regulated, um, a park, what would the response of Alberta wildfires have been if contractors showed
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up at the door and said, we're here to help? Yeah. So when it comes to Alberta wildfire, we,
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you know, we fight the fire on the, on the land base out in the, in the forested area, forest
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protection area. And so the municipalities are the ones that are in charge of the wildfire when it
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comes into a municipality. So for instance, Fort McMurray there, when that fire was threatening Fort
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McMurray earlier this spring, that was a municipality that would have made the decision on allowing
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those, uh, those trucks to come in. And, uh, when it comes to Alberta wildfire, we, you know, we're,
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we're working in, uh, mostly in the forested area and that interface area where we're getting,
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you know, where the fire's getting close to municipality. So we work directly with the
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municipality, but the municipality itself would have been making the decision on, uh, the entrance
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of those vehicles into the town site. And have you ever heard of a situation like this before
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where contractors showed up and the municipality said, actually, um, we, you guys aren't allowed to be
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here. And, and in that instance as well, in a case where it actually turns out that
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for example, in Jasper, you know, one third of the buildings being burned, uh, where a municipality
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turns away contractors and then ends up losing significant portions of the municipality that
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they are, you know, in supposed to be protecting. Yeah. So, you know, there's, there is situations
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that have happened in the past where municipalities have felt like they had the fire under control
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themselves and, and didn't want to have help from outside contractors, but that isn't a situation
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here. This is, this is a different situation where we have a municipality that may have welcomed
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them, but, uh, but Parks Canada being in control of the, the, uh, the area there, uh, we're in a
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different situation than what we'd normally see in a municipality in Alberta.
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Sure. I want to play one other clip from this interview where Levon was saying a little bit
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alluding to what he thinks might've broken down, or he talks specifically about the legislative
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process. He says there was no legislative process that allowed us to be there. Let's play this next
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clip. You had said that you were not, you were not legally allowed to be there. Could you explain
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What was explained to us by the operations section chief, uh, the second in command to
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the incident commander? Um, as far as I know, we were allowed to be there because, uh, this
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was through the Parks Canada liaison person and our client, uh, that made these arrangements
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for us to be in there. Um, I guess there's no legislative process to allow contract firefighters,
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being there on behalf of other parties must be the reasoning for that, but we, we did not
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show up there, um, unanticipated. This was arrangements that were made on behalf of our
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client pursuit and Parks Canada before we showed up. It's not like we show up at the door and
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managed to be let in with barbarians. We, it was our expectation that when we got to the
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gate that we were supposed to be, we made it to go in to do our job to help protect, uh, the
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So there you hear Christopher say, you know, we had been working with Parks Canada was our
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understanding that we'd be allowed. And we, he actually says we didn't show up at the door
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like barbarians demanding to be lit. And I thought that was funny. Um, and as you mentioned, it
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seems like Parks Canada, they just didn't really have the systems in place. They weren't sure
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what to do with these volunteers when they arrived for people like you and I who deal with
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the federal government on a semi fairly regular basis. We are not surprised to see how this
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and broke down. That seems to really be, um, on par with the federal government these days.
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But when he specifically mentions that legislative process, I have to ask, is this something that is
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now on the government of Alberta's radar? And, you know, is there any way they can compel changes
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within Parks Canada to ensure that in the future, when there's wildfire rate, wildfires raging
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specifically near buildings, um, that contractors will be allowed in to help.
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You know, there's a lot of changes we'd like to see with, uh, with Parks Canada and how they deal
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with wildfire. You know, when it comes to municipalities, uh, we passed bill 21 in the
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legislature here this, this past spring, which allows us to be more involved in fires when
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they're in a municipality, uh, than we were previously allowed to. And we would like to see
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something similar to that for, for Jasper and Banff and the national parks. Uh, we'd like to be able to,
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to be involved again. We, we have the expertise, we have the equipment, we have the contractors and things
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like that, that, uh, that can really, uh, do a great job in battling these fires. And, and when,
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you know, when you have these, uh, major fires like this, the more expertise you have on the ground,
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the better. And, uh, and I think it'd be advantageous to make sure that we, we were able
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to be involved like we can at the municipal level in Alberta.
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Sure. You know, that sort of brings me to something else I wanted to raise is after the wildfires
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happened, I know a number of people, especially on the conservative side said, you know, this was sort of
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an abysmal job from Parks Canada. Let's give this responsibility back to Alberta, back to Alberta
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wildfire. Let's have a provincial homegrown response to it. And you've said now that the Alberta
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government has produced changes. So are you going to be guaranteed now moving forward that if there is
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a fire in a federally regulated park, that Alberta wildfires is going to be allowed in, or are those
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still changes that you're ironing out with Parks Canada? The request has been made and we'll,
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we'll see where that request goes. Um, we've, we've sent a letter to Minister Guibo asking to,
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to have that same sort of, uh, arrangement that we do have with municipalities in Alberta. So we've
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asked for that and we want to be more involved in, uh, in, uh, the fire prevention and mitigation efforts
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that, uh, that Parks Canada has or hasn't, uh, undergone over the past several years. Uh, when we look at
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our, you know, we have the, uh, community fire guard program that we announced last fall that's being
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utilized right now and, and, uh, to help protect communities. Uh, we have fire smart and we know,
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uh, some of the national parks have been involved in some of our fire smart activities.
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But, uh, when we look at what we've done with our forests in Alberta, when it come to pine beetle
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infestations and things like that, we, we are aggressive in fighting the pine beetle, but we're
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also aggressive in taking out those dead trees and taking out the trees that were in danger of being
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infested by a pine beetle. And that's, uh, that's made a huge difference as far as the fuel load in,
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uh, in the rest of Alberta versus the fuel load of, uh, in the national parks.
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Todd, just my last question for you here. When we talk about sort of this, uh, breakdown in Parks
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Canada and their response to the contractors arriving, you know, we've talked a little bit
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about how maybe it's not that surprising given how the federal government seems to be so heavily
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regulated in every avenue. And when something new happens, even if it's sort of a common sense
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approach, uh, they just don't pick up on that. And because they don't have a process to deal
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with it, they, they sort of just rejected as they did with these contractors. I think for some people
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watching, there's such a level of fatigue with specifically this federal government and sort of
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the constant corruption scandals that we're seeing. And I can't help but think that some people
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watching this are going to feel like these contractors being turned away was maybe not
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just a government process breaking down, but perhaps something more untoward happening.
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What would your response to, to those Albertans and those Canadians be?
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Well, I think when we, we look at the federal government is, you know, they want to have
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control over everything they possibly can. And we, we know that they don't have the expertise
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and they don't have the on the ground knowledge that we have as Albertans. And I think other
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provinces probably feel the same way. And, uh, so it's, it is frustrating to see this, uh, this
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kind of control and these kind of, uh, uh, uh, you know, decisions being made, uh, basically in Ottawa
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when it, that it directly affects Albertans right here in Alberta. And, uh, again, I think there's a,
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uh, there's a strong desire and justifiably to see that change and to see if we can get back to
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more local decision, decision-making. Minister, thank you so much for your time today.
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Thank you. I appreciate it too. And, uh, yeah, no, it's lots of good discussion. Lots of things
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need to be done moving forward on this. Great. Well, we'll talk to you soon. Have a good one.
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Yeah. Thanks. All right, everyone. That was Alberta forestry and parks minister,
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Todd Lohan. I really appreciate his perspective today. I've known Todd for a number of years. He
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was one of the, uh, first people that I met when I moved to Alberta. Obviously he ran for the
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leadership that was eventually won by Danielle Smith, but honestly, he really is such a solid guy.
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For those of you who aren't super familiar with him, he's like definitely on our side. So I'm really
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grateful that he's in office. I often say there's not a lot of politicians that I respect. I do really
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admire minister Lohan. I'm grateful for the work that he's doing and I'm grateful that he came on and
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shared his perspective today. So thank you minister Lohan again for that. Now we are going to move on
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to the clip of the week. Now this is becoming a tradition on the show. And basically I've asked my
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producer, the infamous Sean to click a clip every week for us to discuss. I don't watch it in advance
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of the show because I want to be able to give you guys my sort of raw unfiltered response to the clip.
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So we're all going to enjoy it together this week. I have been warned and I feel it is only fair to
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forewarn you all that it is a clip of Chrystia Freeland this week. Now I've been told that some
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of you guys turn off the show when she starts to come on, or some of you guys let me know that you
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might mute it when she is on. Can't really say I blame you. There's something so, like,
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ingratiating about the way that she speaks. Like, I think how she talks to all of us Canadians,
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like, the fact that we're, like, really stupid or maybe that we're, like, two years old. Like,
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that's sort of how she talks to us. So I do appreciate it. It's very difficult to listen to.
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But we're going to have to get through it together so we can hear what she has to say afterwards.
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This week, she's actually complaining about the Conservatives' non-confidence motion efforts,
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which is just too ironic. I feel like this is going to be pretty juicy. So you guys are going to want
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to stick around through this. Turn your volume down and listen to it at, like, the bare minimum
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if you have to. I do that sometimes. Usually when I'm listening to myself. But that would be my
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suggestion to you all. Okay, let's go take a look at this clip of Chrystia Freeland.
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I just think it is appalling and ridiculous what we're seeing in the House of Commons.
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And I think it is really disrespectful to Canadians and disrespectful to our democracy. It makes me
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frustrated and it makes me angry to see just the disrespect for constituents, the disrespect for
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Parliament that the Conservatives are demonstrating.
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So that clip was of Chrystia Freeland from Tuesday morning. You have to just laugh every single thing
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that she said there. If you didn't know the context of it, if you didn't know that she was
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specifically speaking about the Conservatives' efforts to pass a non-confidence motion that would
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topple the government and force an election, then you could honestly think that she was talking about
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the fact that the Liberals are clinging to power with everything they have. She's talking about how
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Canadians are frustrated and angry. Yes, they are. Because Canadians want a federal election.
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She's talking about the disrespect for Parliament. Parliament process has completely broken down.
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I don't know if you guys have been paying much attention. I have a feeling that a lot of people
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have totally checked out of what's going on in Ottawa because it's so frustrating to watch how
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little things are working together. And I said this, I think it was on Off The Record last week,
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Friday, I basically just said like this happens from time to time, maybe every 10 years or so,
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where it just seems that our elected officials come to a place where they're not able to work
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together anymore. And usually when that happens, you know that it is just another example that it
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is time for an election. In this case, our parliamentarians from party to party hold so
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much contempt for one another. They really are not able to work together. I mean, we had an incident of
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Jagmeet Singh yelling at the Conservative leader, Pierre Poliev, in the House and basically trying to
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challenge him to a fight outside. Like this is like grade eight level stuff, not even high school.
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They're not even in high school anymore. They really moved all the way back to elementary school.
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And so everything that Christia Freeland here is saying is true. Canadians are frustrated and angry.
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Canadians are seeing the dysfunction in parliament. And that is because Canadians want an election.
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Canadians, writ large, want one of these non-confidence motions to pass and they want
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the government to fall and they want an election to see. That's so evidence of all the polling that we've
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seen out in the fact that the Conservatives are 20 points ahead of the Liberals. I think from time
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to time when we see polling come out, people read into it a bit too much. Oh, you know, one sort of
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off-brand poll will come out that shows, I don't know, they'll show the United Conservative Party
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20 points, 10 points ahead of the head and then she's NDP. And, you know, we get really excited about
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it. As a journalist, you know, I'm like, oh, wow, that's such a crazy poll. And then maybe over time,
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we've learned, oh, you know, that poll was really a one-off and other polling that we've seen, it
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doesn't really continue to show these trends. And maybe that poll maybe captured a moment in time
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and place after a really good announcement, or maybe the polling just wasn't that good to begin
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with. But in this case, it's like we've had months of polling of the Conservatives 20 points ahead.
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We know that Canadians are ready for change. And when Christopher is talking here, it might be a good
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time to just turn the mirror around, take a look at herself. Do a little bit of self-reflection,
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Christia Freeland. That is my recommendation for you. I think that you should just stay home and
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spend a little time thinking about Canadians and what they actually want and what the polling is
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showing and that maybe, you know, your government, you guys have had, you know, your run, you've damaged
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the country enough. It's time for all of us to move on. That is my thoughts on Christia Freeland and
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the once again hypocrisy of the Liberal government, which I'm just tired of saying those words.
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But I'm just going to have to settle in because it's probably going to be a few more weeks. I've
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hear, you know, some people are saying that they think it's likely the government will fall before
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the end of the year. That would be great. I would love to cover a federal election. I love covering
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elections. It's like some of the most fun coverage that you can do. But until then, we are here to
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continue talking about the Liberal hypocrisy and all of us are waiting for change as Christia Freeland
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recognizes, though doesn't really understand the root cause of that desire to change, it seems.
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All right, everyone, that's all we have time for today on The Rachel Parker Show. I hope you enjoyed
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a little bit of coverage of what's going on out west, which is where I now live, actually. Some
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of you guys might have noticed my audio, my lights are not quite as good today. That's actually because
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my husband and I are in the process of moving. We're moving to central Alberta. I'm not going to be too
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much more specific with our location. And so all my usual gear that I would use is in a moving truck
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on the way there. So I didn't have access to it today. So I hope that wasn't too much of a
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distraction for you all. But I am looking forward to being set up in my new office and to be focusing
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on my work. And we've got some exciting stuff covering the United Conservative Party annual
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general meeting is coming up. The American election is coming up. So lots of really exciting
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things. True North Live Nation is coming up in Calgary. I hope that you guys bought your tickets for
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that. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of you there. But for now, that's all we have time for
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on the Rachel Parker Show. I will be back tomorrow with Rachel and the Republic, where I will be joined
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by Sue Ann Levy to discuss the latest and greatest in the American election. Okay, guys, have a great week.