Yes. The environment commissioner did actually make a number of recommendations to the Coast Guard in order to improve their response.
In terms of response capability, I have to tell you that we do have it at the moment and we have it everywhere in Canada. Employees are trained for environmental response across the country. We have 80 warehouses with environmental response equipment across Canada, and there are also some across the Arctic. Over the past two years, we have also sent 19 containers with environmental response equipment to various Arctic communities. We have also been training local Inuit on how to use the equipment in times of need. We also have larger pieces of equipment that can be transported by plane and used if there ever was an environmental disaster.
The commissioner especially criticized us for our performance framework and risk analyses, which we are currently working on. We have the capability to respond at the moment. A very strict regulatory regime created by Transport Canada has been implemented in Canada. Under the regime, all shipowners to the south of the 60th parallel are required to call a private environmental response organization. There are four in Canada, covering the whole country. The Canadian Coast Guard is a secondary responder. We monitor those companies' environmental interventions on behalf of the federal government. If it happens that they do not respond, all our ships are ready and equipped to respond in the places mentioned earlier.