The reality is that each jurisdiction manages different predictions, data collection and archiving technologies. None of them are interoperable. That means that in B.C., you have your way of looking at flood and drought, but it's not easy for you to look at the data from a neighbouring province or from neighbouring municipalities that have the same realities.
You wouldn't be able to exchange that priceless information, because you're not speaking the same language sometimes and you're not using the same models. It's really a way to help with that by being able to say, for example, “This is something we've been through in Quebec and we can help Victoria while it's going through this, because we have now learned from these experiences,” but in order for that to happen, we need to speak the same language and talk about the same things.