{"id":85218,"date":"2026-07-22T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=85218"},"modified":"2026-07-22T15:01:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:01:27","slug":"schreiner-joins-call-for-public-inquiry-into-wildfire-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/22\/schreiner-joins-call-for-public-inquiry-into-wildfire-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Schreiner joins call for public inquiry into wildfire response"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Mike Schreiner released the following statement supporting First Nations chiefs\u2019 call for a public inquiry into the government\u2019s response to wildfires:<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the midst of one of the worst wildfire seasons in Ontario\u2019s history, First Nations communities have been left without the proper resources, information and evacuation support to keep them safe.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Entire communities have been destroyed and thousands of people are stuck in hotel rooms wondering when they\u2019ll see home again.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Wildland firefighters and first responders are working hard to keep people safe, but the Ford government has failed to do its part by repeatedly underfunding emergency firefighting in the provincial budget, and failing to coordinate evacuation efforts and communicate with First Nations.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ontario Greens join First Nations leaders in the call for a public inquiry into the provincial government\u2019s wildfire response, which left First Nations communities to self-evacuate without necessary support from the province. During this difficult time, the province has a responsibility to let Indigenous communities know it hears their call to learn from mistakes and will act on it to do better moving forward.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Northwestern communities should feel like the government has their back in the face of worsening forest fire seasons. As we continue to feel the very real and dangerous impacts of the climate crisis, the Ford government must step up. We need to learn from the provincial response and work across party lines to do ensure that communities and frontline workers have the resources they need.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Mike Schreiner, Leader of the Green Party of Ontario and MPP for Guelph, is the first Green MPP elected to the Ontario Legislature in 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Schreiner released the following statement supporting First Nations chiefs\u2019 call for a public inquiry into the government\u2019s response to wildfires: \u201cIn the midst of one of the worst wildfire seasons in Ontario\u2019s history, First Nations communities have been left without the proper resources, information and evacuation support to keep them safe.\u00a0 Entire communities have …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":85219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,3408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-ontario","category-ner-forest-fire-updates"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-29 15:05:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85221,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85218\/revisions\/85221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}