Canada is considering a national wildfire agency. This expert says it should focus elsewhere | Unpublished
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Author: Matthew McClearn
Publication Date: October 12, 2025 - 06:00

Canada is considering a national wildfire agency. This expert says it should focus elsewhere

October 12, 2025

As Canada suffered one of the most destructive fire seasons in its history, Eleanor Olszewski, the federal emergency management minister, floated the idea of creating a federal agency to co-ordinate the country’s response to natural disasters, including wildfire. She has committed to revealing further details this fall.

Kim Connors, who retired this year as executive director of the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre (CIFFC), spent more than four decades fighting wildfires, including as director of provincial wildfire programs in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan.



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