B.C. Premier David Eby spoke Thursday in Abbotsford, B.C., where about 100 Mexican firefighters arrived to support the B.C. Wildfire Service (BCWS), joining a group of their compatriots that came on Monday…
“When you are delegating to the ministers at the same time that you’re dealing with these tragedies, that’s not the job of the ministers. The ministers work on their portfolios, and that’s what they do. But when you have something that becomes more tragic, that’s when you’re supposed to have the leader step in. That’s when you’re supposed to hear from somebody else in government because the people who are managing the portfolios are not the people who are going to say, ‘We’re here for you, and we’re doing everything we can.'”
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