Thank you very much, Mr. Bernier.
It's a pleasure for me to be here.
I want to start, Colonel Drover, by saying pardon me if I interrupt on occasion. I don't know if this is apropos to say, but time is of the essence and I'd like to get as many answers as I can.
Secondly, I would like to say congratulations and how inspiring the people of search and rescue are. I can't even imagine what these soldiers face, day in and day out, especially people such as search and rescue technicians, when that door is opened and the waves are that high, particularly in my section.
I would humbly suggest that the public affairs department please consider increasing the amount of publicity given to search and rescue and what they do, certainly a full-time public affairs office for each and every base or squadron.
Now, going to the gist of the matter, which is the response time, in a letter to the Town of Gander, which inquired about the 30-minute response time—and Gander, of course, is the home of 103 Search and Rescue Squadron—you say, and I'm paraphrasing you, that it would, at best, yield only marginal improvement to the overall response effectiveness when it comes to reducing those off-hour times from two hours to a 30-minute response time.
I have a very precise question. How much would it cost to go to a 30-minute, 24-hour response?