Columbia Shuswap protective services manager urges haste on ‘Canada on Fire’ recommendations

By Barb Brouwer
Contributor
Wildfires in Canada are now a crisis.
Canada on Fire, a report of the federal Standing Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, calls for immediate action on managing the rapidly escalating wildfires across the country and the impact they have on forestry and agriculture industries as well as rural and Indigenous communities.
Considering the report to have many positive aspects, Derek Sutherland, the Columbia Shuswap Regional District’s general manager of c