Thank you for those comments.
I agree with you on the military being used as a last resort. I think “last resort” has become too easy a term to be stretched.
You mentioned, with Ms. Gallant, some comments about the Canadian Emergency Management College. I happen to be a graduate of that place, and it had tremendous learning there, which I was able to apply in some disasters in my own community.
Do you think it's possible, when you look at the totality of the economic impact of a disaster and the cost to then clean it up, that we'd actually save taxpayer dollars federally if the government could stand that college up again and invite our provinces, our municipalities, our NGOs and our civilian organizations to increase the civilian capacity? In so doing, do you think the need for the federal government to come to the rescue, if you will, of some places would be mitigated?
Do you see the long-term gain in something like that?