Thank you, Mr. Chair.
There are a number of us here who are brand new MPs, but in my previous life I actually dealt with this as an MLA for the provincial legislature in B.C., as well as a chief councillor back in my small native village in B.C. It was Mr. Leibl or Mr. McEwen who put it best. We need a whole-of-society approach.
Just looking at this list, we're talking about individual responsibility, health, vulnerability and zoning; we're talking about provincial alignment across all of the ministries, mining and forestry; and we're talking about relocation issues. We're talking about the devaluation of properties. We're talking about the cost to the taxpayer, whether we're talking about a failed model in the United States or the DFAA program in Canada, which could be offset by the topic that we're talking about here today.
However, we haven't even begun to talk about the larger range of issues that have to fall under this umbrella. We're not talking about the transboundary agreement, for example, that caused the flooding in Abbotsford. We're not talking about dams and their role in managing floods.
It's not just your round of panel discussion. The panel before you emphasized that this work is already done. It's already been documented extensively over the last 10 years. All we need now is government action.
I will turn to Mr. Leibl, I suppose, to ask, where would the government provide its best effort in kick-starting this process, which covers a lot of different sectors?