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As more people have to leave their homes in northern Saskatchewan and wildfire teams are on the job again, the Sask. NDP is calling for more information about what went wrong in the last wildfire year.
In the record-setting wildfire season of 2025, there were all kinds of concerns raised about communication around the wildfires, how they were being fought, and the treatment of evacuees, among other things.
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The provincial government engaged MNP in October to do an independent review of the wildfire response. The report was expected to be finished and released before the 2026 wildfire season. It has not been released yet.
Hugh Gordon, Sask. NDP associate critic on public safety, said the report is important to find out what actually went wrong last year, and to see if any of those things have been fixed for this year.
“We don’t know what they learned from the poor communications, the confusion, evacuation alerts, financial supports,” he explained.
He expects details like how decisions were made around dispersing resources, how the government responded to the fires, how it mitigated the fires, and how coordination was handled between the Sask. Public Safety Agency and the Red Cross.
Gordon accused the government of hiding the results of the review, while at the same time calling it “watered-down” and saying it should have been a public inquiry instead.
He said the NDP is already hearing about poor communication during the fires and evacuations this past weekend.
“We’re hearing early reports of chaos again with evacuations, and of resources not being properly dispersed to combat fires that have broken out in several locations,” said Gordon.
It had previously been reported that the review was expected to be finished and delivered in February, but that MNP wanted to do more interviews.
On Monday, Premier Scott Moe didn’t gave a date as to when he thought the report would be released. He would only say that as soon as it’s available the report will be released to the public, and he wanted that to be “sooner rather than later.”
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