It would be really challenging. In the worst case it would be really challenging, so it's a great question.
I mentioned earlier that we have six regional joint task forces and there is one headquartered in Victoria, Joint Task Force Pacific. Our rear-admiral, who is the commander of Joint Task Force Pacific, maintains very close contact with his provincial emergency measures counterparts. They hold frequent exercises. They usually do it in September or October after some personnel changes have taken place. They did another one again this year where they actually went through what the response would be.
I mentioned earlier that we have Operation LENTUS, which is our disaster response operation. There is a subset to that which deals with response to a Vancouver, west coast earthquake.
If a problem occurred, would I hear about it from Rear-Admiral Truelove, who would give me the call to say that we had just had a really bad earthquake and that we were responding? Or would he be cut off? Would we hear about it on the news? We don't know, but we've put measures in place that would account for that. It could be that he would hear about it from his emergency measures counterparts who are the lead at the provincial and federal level. If he were able to respond, then it would be under him that we would flow resources and assets into the province in order to respond and assist our provincial and municipal counterparts.
We have a plan that if he were unable to communicate with us, the commander in Edmonton, Joint Task Force West, would assume that function for us. We do practice that, and if he were cut off, Edmonton takes over and we start to flow in the forces through that direction.