Madam Chair, I'll start off and then turn to my colleague Julie Sunday to supplement.
Thank you for the very important question. It's a question that obviously partner departments and Global Affairs Canada have posed and, in after-action review, undertook to respond to, not only through internal review but also by responding to the recommendations that came forward from the really important work of this committee. I think, as the minister mentioned earlier, they carried forward new investments in capacity to do better and to have better capacity not only to respond but also to coordinate.
The fact is, as the minister mentioned—and to get to the premise of some of your earlier comments—the situation was messy. It had its own unique characteristics. Canada was in a position different from the positions of some of our allies with respect to assets on the ground.
Just to speak to the comparability of how we did, I think all of those are valid questions and all of those have factored into how we analyze, assess and look at how we will work going forward. At the same time, we hope that some of the specifics of the situation will never obtain in the same way.
It's about the capacity to be able to move more nimbly. I think the government's response to recommendation 2 was to agree with the premise but to look at the tool kit that the existing act already provides us to work with.