This country urgently needs a national fire administration

Fire chiefs know that Ottawa wants to get it right when it comes to the best model to pursue, but time’s up. A national fire administration would get these fire and life safety issues out of the federal government’s blind-spot, and on to the table. The only real cost is the cost of inaction.

Firefighters at the site of a wildfire in Alberta in the summer of 2023. Photograph courtesy of New South Wales Rural Fire Service

Opinion

BY KEN MCMULLEN, TINA SARYEDDINE

November 28, 2024

From building three million new housing units by 2030, to ensuring all new vehicles are electric or zero emissions by 2035, federal policy is fraught with fire and life safety risks. These risks are in the federal government’s blind spot, through no fault of its own. Unlik...

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