May I jump in?
This is why we need to have federal coordination of both NGOs and federal-provincial response capabilities. The nation-to-nation relationship has to be protected and is so critical. First nations have the ability to reach out directly to the federal government and say, “We require assistance, and these are the things we require.” Then Public Safety Canada has the ability to say, “These are the federal assets we have that can support and respond, and here are the NGO capabilities that can support and respond.”
We could go one step further and do what the Americans do. They have a National Business Emergency Operations Center, where they leverage the capabilities of private enterprise so they can respond and support. Bringing the whole of society together at the federal level is actually going to enable us to respond more quickly and more locally than devolving it to the provinces.