Thank you.
I think that's actually a really important question to sum up. When I was in the CAF, I was never trained in how to respond to a flood. I was never trained in how to respond to a wildfire. I did both. That was because it was residual capacity for more fighting training. It's the organizational structure and the logistical structure that the CAF brings that enables it to respond.
If we want to be able to respond to disasters in a way that is the most effective, we need to rely on the civilian capacity that already exists, so that we're not duplicating effort. When things do exceed civilian capacity, we're then able to bring in that force of last resort. The CAF would be that deployable and self-sustainable organized labour that we can then throw at the problem when we've exhausted all other options.