2026 Wildfire Season

[Altair]

The CAF being deployed on fires has very little to do with firefighting and lots to do with optics.

There are existing mechanisms to discourage requests for the CAF, ie charging the provincial governments for all costs associated with the CAF deployment.
The sale of the C-130s to Coulson will do more for firefighting in Canada than deploying CAF ground troops as type 3 teams.

Forget discouraging.

Should be flat out refused.

 

[YZT580]

They can clear deadfall around cities to keep the fries from rapidly gaining fuel sources and keep the towns and cities from burning to the ground.
They can assist with floods, other "extreme" weather events around.
Lots of "disaster" prep that can be done across the country to assist leading up to the situations that is not being done until it is to late.

two years less a day used to get you on one of those teams doing exactly those tasks.