Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I think we are getting a lot of the ingredients to what the solution is. We have a wealth of Canadian Armed Forces personnel who are trained and who can no longer be deployed, but would like to be involved in the Canadian Armed Forces. We have others who are fully trained, but no longer want to deploy. So we have their command and control features; they know how to follow or lead. We have also had the comment made that $1 spent in prevention saves $6 to $13 in repairs.
I'm wondering if what we're starting to outline in terms of a solution and a possible new body for response to disasters would be a hybrid of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, because they do engineering for prevention as well as being called in when disaster strikes, but also the aspects of FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is under Homeland Security in the United States and would be under Public Safety in Canada.
We're looking at a hybrid of both of those, from the Canadian Forces as was mentioned, who have specific skills that are needed for situations that are national defence and military related. They could do their work while using the skills they've learned at a later point in time when they no longer are deployable. Is this something that you think could potentially be on guard and able to respond when necessary? It would be a hybrid of the Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA if we're looking at a parallel.