Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I want to continue my discussion with Christian, if possible, from where we ended on that last question with regard to infrastructure.
To my colleague Mr. Tolmie's point, I think it is responsible that one day Canada take on the work of responding to the climate crisis, the work of adaptation and that whole...lifting it out of the Canadian Armed Forces and making sure they continue to do the job they should be doing in many other ways. In many aspects of this, they are the last resort for labour. They're the last resort for people who are going to defend Canadians domestically.
In the short term, I completely understand the need to ensure that we provide more resources to continue to do that work to support the Canadian Armed Forces so that they can continue to help Canadians in their most dire need when they are available. In terms of that future aspect, looking at creating the kind of funding and program and service core that are required to respond to these kinds of disasters in a responsible way, how long do you think it will take a country the size of Canada to do that work, and what kind of investment are we talking about with respect to GDP, for example?
