I do, through you, Mr. Chair.
One recommendation, which we couldn't put in and which was a problem that we saw this year specifically in Saskatchewan with disasters, with the flooding—we think this would be an opportunity to probably save the federal government tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars—is to review the federal disaster assistance program.
Right now, municipalities cannot be compensated or are not compensated for doing their own work. We have to out-source all of it. In rural Saskatchewan, and probably in many parts of rural Canada, we don't have the contractors to do it. In the southeast corner of our province, we are so heavily industrialized in the oil and gas sector that the private contractors will not leave those companies. And you can't blame them. They have contracts with them; they won't leave them.
We think something that could save the federal government a lot of money is to look at their national road builders guide, use it as a guide, take the profit out, even, and say that they would pay the municipalities for their equipment to do work on disasters that is over and above their normal maintenance work.
Thank you.