Very quickly, I think a good climate change response for this country would be to ensure that every municipality had an emergency manager. In Nova Scotia I think eight of 40 municipalities have full-time emergency manager positions. I think that's too few.
I think ensuring that municipalities have emergency managers who are well trained and who have standardized skills and professional abilities that they've been taught can be the building stone. Then you have the local response teams who the emergency manager can assist in training and preparing, who have national standardized competencies and who maybe can be used regionally as well and not just focus on the local community. That's one step.
I do think that given the hazard, given the disaster, you are going to require that next level, which is that federal response—or the provincial response as well, right? That needs to be there as well and can deploy quickly to these scenes. I'm not sure you're ever going to be able to get out of needing to have that other level of response outside the local, but there are certainly ways in which we can strengthen that local side of things moving forward, and relatively inexpensively, I would argue, with the emergency managers and these local teams.