Thank you, Mr. Chair.
My question is for Professor West and relates to the territorial nature and the difference between a localized emergency and an emergency that affects Canada as a whole.
I was reading the speeches by Perrin Beatty and he said, on November 16, 1987: "The emergency in question must affect the whole of Canada or be so great as to exceed the capacity of the provinces to cope with the emergency."
According to this, a localized crisis or localized situation would not meet the definition of a national crisis that would lead to the declaration of an emergency.
Can you explain your thinking on this subject?