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Bruce Hyer

Bruce Hyer

Businessman and former Member of the House of Commons of Canada

Oct 1, 2026

5:14
It's just absolutely astonishing that these fires get so big now and they move so fast.
5:22
Lawrence, do you know why they are huge now and more of them? There are two reasons.
5:31
One has been all over the media and it's climate change.
5:37
Is there really anybody out there besides Donald Trump that believes that climate change isn't real? So we know that's a big cause.
5:50
But the other cause is the forest industry for 60 years has insisted that the taxpayers and MNR put out every little fire whenever possible.
6:07
Well, smoking's a bit of a lie.
6:10
We cannot prevent forest fires, but we sure can postpone them.

37 MINS LATER

43:00
And that's, that's humbling.

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