Yes, sir, I can speak on behalf of CASARA. As a matter of fact, the last time I was here I did have the president of CASARA as a witness with me.
It's a very mature program. We have organizations represented in all the provinces of Canada and in the territories as well. And it is, as you spoke, a volunteer organization. We provide some funding for training of the individuals who are part of the organization. Their time, essentially, is on a voluntary basis, so there's no wage, remuneration, or pay.
There are two elements to the CASARA organization. There are those who are spotters, and these individuals are trained by our own military SAR crews. And that's part of the training. It's an ongoing requirement that they go to the various units, flying clubs, whatever, and train as professional spotters. There are some skills involved in being able to fly a route and determine, through some trees, where the crash may be, as it's almost obscure or hidden. So there's that element.
The other element is that the individuals have their aircraft and they're flying, they're operating. We again assist in the training to give them some SAR skills in the training. They are essentially used to search for those ELTs that we spoke to. They have equipment, the homing equipment, the same as our SAR aircraft, and depending on the weather conditions, they can do some search operations but no rescue and no aerial delivery of any capacity. They're essentially a resource, and they're very capable in performing those functions, but we don't take them beyond that.
When we do have a search and rescue operation, we actually compensate for their fuel and gas, but not salary.