as is often the case in canada, it is the indigenous inhabitants of northwestern ontario feeling the brunt of and taking the hit from these conservative party budget cuts to forest fire prevention, at a time when any basic analysis should have predicted the need for large increases in funding. this is incompetence. this is mismanagement. and the government should correctly get reamed for it.

this is what happens when a society slashes tax rates for decades on end, it starts to become unable to provide basic services to it's own people. without a sufficient tax base, a society begins to fall apart.