In terms of what we've seen in the last year, that's why I've given the example: Is it the appropriate tool, the armed forces, for all these situations? Are there other capabilities on the ground—local capacities—that can be trained for this? Our experience is that there are always other capabilities—not in every case and sometimes the military is necessary—but because we haven't identified what those risks are, and we haven't looked at who can help in those situations, we're caught unprepared. Then we need a rapid response, which the military has. I think the other speaker from Manitoba said that very well.
The question is whether we have other existing capabilities. In order to understand that, we need to understand the risks and do that inventory. A lot of civil protection response is around looking at the capacities, because the first response is always in the community, the local community. Have you prepared them properly? Have you trained people properly? Have you prepared them to face their risks properly? Then, after that, you have the response. I think we have to heighten that side of our response in Canada as a civil protection and look at civil society in that respect.
