To avoid the federal-provincial quagmire, which always becomes a problem, should issues related to acts of mother nature or international consequence be the definition for what the federal government is responsible for with disaster assistance? You get into this 60-40, 90-10, 70-30 or whatever, and you're a year into it before you get a payout--like the discussions we're seeing now on the savings accounts.
What should the criteria be for what the federal government is ultimately responsible for? Personally, I believe it should be the federal government if it's an international incident such as BSE, or acts of nature.