Pilot here. We all know about airspray and their industry corner… Pay is shit. Hours are shit. Contract is shit. Offer 300k, week on-week off rotations and we can talk.
Provinces to Feds when resource dollars are involved: Fuck off and die!
Provinces to Feds when resources are on fire: Save me daddy!
I think the story is that the water bomber company went out of business, and then people realized the earth was on fire so they hastily restarted production. Unfortunately, canada was ironically the last to put their orders in to our own manufacturer. So we have to wait until other countries get their orders first…
And then winter starts and we reset and forget, rinse and repeat.
How about he invests in proper forest managery. Its not as if fires are perpetually preventable by just putting them out every time.
How about rezone housing and using the maintenance budget from urban sprawl.