Health committee  I am sorry to disappoint you. The answer is no, and let me tell you why. As I mentioned earlier, you cannot have a plan for every single type of incident that can come up, because keeping them up to date and making sure that you have the right plan, the right version, would be

Health committee  Do you mean each business continuity plan?

Health committee  The overall approach to manage any incident we have is what we call the federal emergency response plan. We've developed this in talking with the national security types of organizations like CBSA, RCMP, and Transport, the organizations that deal with incidents that are criminal

Health committee  Yes, in the spring, and actually over the summer as well. A working subgroup was created back in 2006 and it is part of the annex of the pandemic plan. A working group with the private sector was created. This working group has met. There are about 100 or so organizations. Public

Health committee  I'm going to start a little lower, and I'll get to me, okay?

Health committee  The principle of managing an emergency starts with the individual, okay? Each of us has a responsibility to be prepared for something.

Health committee  I was trying to answer your first question, where you talked about the water treatment problem. So the individual, if they need assistance, they go to the municipality—

Health committee  Then the province, then the federal government. On the reserve, it varies from province to province. The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs has different arrangements with different provinces. And I don't want to speak for them, but I can tell you that over the last few we

Health committee  In the end, yes. In the end, when there are no other options, when people don't know where to go, they will turn to us and we'll find a way.

Health committee  Public Safety is.

Health committee  No, Minister Van Loan.

Health committee  What we have done is in the context of a committee that I co-chair. We have looked at how the machinery of government reacted to the H1N1 wave in the spring. We identified six or seven areas where we really needed to invest our time and energy over the summer.

Health committee  No, not really money, not in the context of the federal coordination and our own individual response. In the context of the Public Health Agency and Health Canada, it's different story; but from a structural point of view of the organization of the Government of Canada, there was

Health committee  Public Safety Canada has no expertise in providing guidance on—

Health committee  If there are not enough ventilators and there's a need to urgently purchase ventilators, there is a process that will allow that.