42% of wildfire evacuations occur in Indigenous communities, researcher
While wildfire season and evacuation alerts have become par for the course for many communities across Canada, for Indigenous people its far too frequent.
“It’s a really disproportionate impact when Indigenous people only make up 5 per cent of the population in Canada but 42 per cent of wildfire evacuation events occur in their communities,” said Amy Cardinal Christianson, a Métis fire research scientist. “A lot of that is because of where Indigenous communities are located.”
