I think the institutional framework that we need is exactly what we have today. I'm not advocating for the creation of new organizations, but the repurposing of the Permanent Joint Board on Defence towards these emerging challenges has been enormously helpful. I would say that's also true of the mutual assistance agreements that already exist between utilities in Canada and the United States. State by state, province by province, there are strong collaborative relationships that already exist, but what we need to do now is scale these relationships up in a binational framework and really figure out which kinds of capabilities are going to be most necessary for investment, given the rise of non-traditional hazards.
On May 6th, 2014. See this statement in context.