There is a missing piece wherein Canadian leadership is going to be very important.
Based on the harsh lessons learned from disaster response in Haiti, the Conference of Defense Ministers of the Americas launched an initiative, with Canada playing a vital role, to apply the lessons learned, so that the next time a catastrophe strikes in the western hemisphere we have arrangements in place to already know which nations can provide specific kinds of capabilities; so that instead of making things up under duress, instead of all rushing to the site in an uncoordinated fashion, we can know in advance which nation can provide the most important capabilities.