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So a few other things on the go here. Let me just get my notes together here. I'm going to talk briefly about the drought and the fire weather that we've been having across parts of Canada. Let me start with the fire weather here. Over the past week we've had a pretty severe wildfire season that's been continuing and there's been a number of large and active fires. So right now the national preparedness level is still at a 5 which is the highest possible as I've mentioned numerous times. So right now there's 695 active fires. This is as of a couple hours ago. There's 695 active fires. And we've had 4,498 major fires recorded to date and so far the numbers lag a little bit but right now the area burned so far this year 7.7 million hectares and that's approximately 240 percent higher than the 10-year average. So we're burning more than usual and so far this year Saskatchewan and Manitoba are accounting for half of the total area burned. So they've been getting it really bad. Let me recycle it.