Thank you for the question, sir.
I see a couple of big and important issues to address there.
In terms of your point about federal versus provincial jurisdiction, I think that's a highly salient concern, but I would personally raise some warnings about allowing a kind of patchwork quilt of response capacities across the country being determined by the different distinct fiscal and climate-related needs of each of the different provinces. As we know, and as members of this committee know, there's a lot of resource sharing that occurs in Canada. CAF personnel located in one province will be deployed to support an Operation Lentus deployment in another province. I think we see an almost inherent kind of interprovincial quality to what we're discussing here.
In that context, while some particularly at-risk provinces might well be served by improving their own emergency preparedness and disaster response capabilities, I personally would suggest that it's an important role for the federal government to have its own capabilities so that they can contribute, either as an initial response or as a supplementary response, to other capacities that might exist at the provincial level.
If I may just quickly offer a thought related to your question, in a climate context when we think about resilience, the most resilient forms of response are going to be the ones that are the closest to the community, closest to the local level. To the extent that personnel and resources are having to travel long distances to respond, there will be room for disruption and delay and, ultimately, the effectiveness may be somewhat undermined. I think models that site resources, human capacity and personnel within communities, or as distributed as possible, is probably one that's going to prove to be the most resilient in the climate change future.
In terms of the various approaches that have been identified, I would defer to my colleague in terms of the merits of many of those, but from what I've seen and heard from other experts, the model along the lines of, for example, the Canadian Rangers, which are inherently community based and deeply rooted in particular communities and regions of this country, is a model that to me seems very commendable and offers a lot of potential value in a somewhat broad and climate environmental disaster context.