Thank you for your question.
Actually, I heard a little bit of the last participant, Mr. Fadden, as he ended. If we take the COVID experience, and in some cases the volunteers and staff, it's all about what we are building the capacity for and what we are planning for. When COVID happened, we were asked to replace the military. We didn't have that capacity, but we built it to what was required. We built a partly permanent capacity to that response—it wasn't all volunteers. To this date, we have volunteer capacity throughout the provinces.
Throughout the provinces, we have presence everywhere. We have some interoperable capacity, so we can bring it from one place to the other.
I think a lot of this conversation here is—and my ending point actually to my presentation was this—understanding what the risks are that we're looking at and what capacities we need to build. Right now, we're using the military consistently for lack of being prepared in other aspects, like lacking trained local capacity and having that objective.
I'm not saying that in every case you don't need the military—in some exceptional cases you do—but it seems to be the only tool in the tool box. What risks are we facing and what capacities do we need to support and train locally? That's a mixture of staff, of course, and volunteers.
We're looking at the fire after the fire starts. We're not spending a lot of money building the fire station in the civil protection area.