One place we can start is the federal emergency response plan, and I think this picks up on the previous remarks. We consistently have trouble when we roll out the federal emergency response plan because people don't understand the plan, and there are agencies and people around the table who aren't familiar with it.
One of the things the Emergency Management College and more co-operation could provide is an opportunity to practise much more regularly, in tabletop exercises, what the plans look like so that everybody is familiar with the plans and everybody knows what their jobs are and what their tasks are. That's something that is currently missing and that the federal government ultimately needs to force. We need to be able to coordinate effectively among our own departments, and everybody needs to know what their jobs are before we can go to NGOs, the private sector and other entities and have them pile on, in terms of coordination. I think there's some work that we need to do right here.
Of course, the other concern has to do with the provinces and territories. In January 2021, when the Canadian Armed Forces was deployed to Newfoundland and tried to coordinate, they discovered that Newfoundland had stood down its emergency measures organization because it couldn't fund it. There are considerable asymmetries across the provinces and territories, and it's important that the federal government make sure that all provinces maintain a certain capability, particularly, perhaps, the smaller provinces, which already have less capability to respond to begin with but have disproportionate challenges, for instance all of the Atlantic provinces.