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So we're privatizing wildfire emergency support services now?
Jfc. Why can't the gov't spend a few bucks and train the people needed to do this, instead of giving billions (because it will be billions) of dollars to private companies who'll do a shitty job of it anyway?
Remove fossil fuel subsidies and use that money to pay for training/employment of firefighters and forestry management. We should be fining fossil fuel companies and big polluters but just removing the subsidies is a start and will free up funds to solve problems they helped create.
I have a pet theory, with zero direct evidence, but a bunch of anecdotal hints ... that the US has 'encouraged' Canada to increase our O&G support and output because they want to cut down on their reliance on SAE/OPEC sources.
Because so far America is doing the bare minimum to wean itself off O&G, so they need a reliable alternative source ... and we're it.
If that is true it explains why we purchased the TCP, and completed the line, plus the billions we spend subsidizing O&G.
Just to be clear, a majority of wildfire response efforts are provincial and CAF basically gets called in when resources are tapped out across the country. And Quebec actually did privatize their wildfire emergency response a while back, although I don't know the details on how that compares against their public agency. And lots of bits and pieces of response are either privatized or partially privatized in many provinces, such as aircraft and helicopter resourcing.
All that said: yeah, CAF just needs to be trained better for emergency response functions. It's most of what we use our armed forces for anyways. I've heard plenty of stories of CAF being deployed and then sitting around for a week because their radios aren't compatible and they don't know how to integrate into a unified command structure. These are the things that need to be sorted out, not throwing more money at more entities who can complicate things.