There is a set of criteria laid down from the federal government and from the Department of Public Safety of when federal assets would be used. For example, one of those is would we be competing with local businesses. Clearly, it's the last thing, I think, Canadians would want, that we're competing with local industry. That's not what it's about. If the capability is on the ground to do it, use it. That's the message that's passed, and that's what we look at when we go into these issues.
When you look at what happened in the Montérégie region, the Canadian Forces were asked by the Province of Quebec to come in to provide assistance. We were in there, I believe, within 12 hours from any location to provide that support, based on the requests and the demands from the province.
One point to note is that there is a new factor that has emerged. When you look at us working, we do work in Quebec now with a new agency that's in Quebec that provides emergency management support. We work for them. It was the agency that, in this case, told us every day what we should be doing and what jobs we needed to do.
It was very different during the ice storm, where we worked directly with cities, towns, and the like. The new construct in place very much mirrors the federal approach, that we work for the emergency management organization in the province of Quebec, which laid out for us exactly what they needed us to do, day by day, until the job was done.