NRCan workforce cuts raise questions about Canada’s future wildfire-mapping capacity, union says: ‘climate resilience is not built at an emergency press conference when the fires are out there’

More than 200 PIPSC members are affected at each of NRCan, Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Fisheries and Oceans Canada, PIPSC vice-president Stéphanie Fréchette said. Across government, the union says more than 6,500 members have been impacted.
Smoke haze hangs over Ottawa in 2023. Wildfire smoke has become a recurring feature of Canadian summers in recent years, as federal scientists warn that workforce reductions could weaken the systems used to track and prepare for future fire seasons.

At least 17 federal employees whose remote-sensing work supports satellite mapping of wildfires have been notified that their positions may be eliminated through workforce adjustment at Natural Resources Canada, according to their union, raising questions about the scientifi...

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