I think a civilian emergency response force could be, again, a mixture of full-time employees and part-time employees. They could be mobilized during disasters. They have the benefit of being able to rapidly deploy if they're part of this force. More importantly, they can focus—especially the full-time employees—and be used for other tasks during periods of the year when there are not so many hazards being posed to communities. They can be used for things like prevention mitigation, whether it be forestry management or reconstructing dikes or whatever it might be. They can play a wide variety of roles that the CAF and the reserves can't because of their training that's focused on their war-fighting role.
That's where I see the value of a civilian emergency force and it being able to slide in and cover the rest of that emergency management spectrum, with the support of local teams, of course.