Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thanks to both of you for being here.
Major-General Prévost, in your opening remarks you spoke about the doubling of requests every five years, if I wrote that down correctly. Obviously, with climate change, extreme weather events are more prevalent, so it's not surprising to see that increase.
However, based on the nature of our study and some of the information and testimony we've had, I'm curious to know if anyone in CAF—whether it's either of you or those who might report to you—has looked at provincial and territorial budgets or programming to see if there are investments being made at the local levels in terms of this increased frequency of major events like climate change.
The context of this question is that some of the testimony we heard is that there is no urgency in some places to increase resources to be able to deal with these events at the local level because CAF has become the first line of request, etc. I'm just curious to know if that has been looked at at all and if there's any...I don't want to say “any truth to it”, because I'm sure the testimony here was incredibly truthful, but is there any data backing that up or have you actually engaged to help local authorities also increase their capacity as we're seeing more frequent extreme weather events domestically?