Mr. Chair, I'd like to mention that in the immediate aftermath of learning about the loss of the containers, the Coast Guard triggered our area response plans. A fundamental part of the area response plans is, in fact, direct and immediate communication with affected first nations.
There's a very long list of first nations that were engaged right from the get-go, from the Juan de Fuca response planning area and the west coast of Vancouver Island response planning area. Those are certainly categories that mean something within the Coast Guard's planning framework—I understand that—but the list is extensive. A tangible example of one of our primary considerations is to reach out first and foremost to affected coastal communities, which by and large in this context certainly were first nations.
In the immediate, it was further south, to be sure, and I believe the first nation that is being referred to is further north. As debris was starting to [Technical difficulty—Editor] we were indeed communicating with the north island nations, as well.
As to the question of what more can be done, we are working very extensively with first nations throughout British Columbia. We have a number of programs that are a result of the oceans protection plan. There are also measures that we're taking as a result of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion—