Government is addressing concerns around the amount of money handed out during wildfires between last year and this year.

NDP Leader Jim Dinn argued earlier this week that compensation should be pushed to $1,000 as it was for evacuees forced from their homes in Labrador.

The minister of forestry, Cartwright-L’Anse au Clair MHA Lisa Dempster, says extra was given to evacuees in Labrador because of the distance involved.

“Folks had to travel about 600 kilometers just to get into central Labrador. So we had 10,000 people that were in Happy Valley Goose Bay,” she said.

“That would have been about a 1,200 kilometer return trip. We worked the ferry system and worked with the service provider at Labrador Marine at that time, and many of them moved to the island to stay with family and friends.”

Government says it plans on laying the framework for a more formal process in the fall.