NDP calls for public inquiry into Ford government’s wildfire preparedness, response

The NDP is repeating its call for a public inquiry into Ontario’s response to this summer’s forest fires as 180 blazes continue to burn in the north. First Nations leaders have said the Ontario government left communities to fend for themselves without timely support for evacuations.Earlier this week, Premier Doug Ford said his government did everything it could to respond to the wildfires. The province has said some of the blazes spread so quickly they were only seen once they were dangerously close to First Nations.On Thursday, Stiles reiterated her call for a public deep dive into the response when the fires have cooled.“We need to know how this happened and we need to know how we can make sure that the people of Ontario are never put at such risk again,” she said at Queen’s Park.

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