I think we are very comfortable in Canada with the national search and rescue system, and our statistics are based on the contribution of everyone to saving lives. So if you have vessels of opportunity, if you have coast guard auxiliary members, if you have Department of National Defence, or if you just have a vessel or a recreational boat passing by, all of these contribute to the statistics.
We've changed the way we do SAR and have moved basically to an inland fleet of small lifeboats, spread across the country strategically. But we only place the coast guard resource, or the federal resource, when we cannot find local volunteers who can be part of the coast guard auxiliary. So placing a primary vessel as the coast guard in an area is the last choice, not the first choice.
Right now we are doing an SAR needs analysis, which we expect to have completed by June of this year, I believe. At that time we'll be able to say whether or not we have any gaps in the safety net across the country. But at this time—with the exception of the Arctic, where we have few resources—we haven't identified areas where there is a crying need for us to put in a primary SAR resource. But what we do on a regular or annual basis at the regional level is to look at small SAR zones within a specific region and determine whether or not we have to emphasize recruitment and whether we have to work more with our partners, and we evaluate whether or not there's significant risk in that area for vessels being in trouble.
The statistics are driven by reported incidents to the joint rescue centres or to the marine rescue subcentre in Quebec City and into the national system, by whoever is in trouble, distress or imminent distress. So the statistics would not include saving the lives of people who are out on Sunday afternoon on a fine day and who just run out of gas.